For folks upset about the #Trump case being thrown out over the unqualified prosecutor, remember that it was Biden's administration that screwed that up by not having any of their properly appointed and qualified officials lead the case.
We really need to be holding folks like #Biden accountable for their screwups, and it's just one more reason Democrats should dump him as their nominee.
But no, so many that are most disappointed in the guy's performance are going to vote to keep him in power.
@volkris OK, so Dems dumped Biden. There may be more accountability than your seeing, maybe?
Or perhaps fighting the machine is actually that hard....
@janisf but the machine is us. We have the votes.
No I see the marginal accountability that dumped Biden. It's just not enough. He lost the support of some of the elite so he got dumped, but when he needs to hold them accountable to the whole party, not just the elite.p
@volkris With all respect, the system is much, much more complex than the votes, notably because the system decides who votes, that those votes have different weights, and makes laws to determine who can afford the education to become a lawyer/judge to shape the system.
Also respectfully, you seem pretty rigid in your perspective. Sitting under a tree and reading the right books might help with that. Well-known Black authors might be a good choice.
I need to be done here, though.
@janisf no, by definition the system is absolutely not more complex than the votes. The entire point of the design, the entire focus of the design, is to ensure that it is not more complex than the votes.
But that's fine if you need to be done. But I would flat out say that you are factually wrong here.
We have systems set up to specifically put votes at the core of the democratic operation. Again, the whole point is that it is not more complex than votes. The US system learned from the British system to make it so.
@volkris You are having way, way too much faith in the people who say they're exercising the design as intended. Heather Cox Richardson is an historian who provides just one perspective on the complexity of how our electoral system is set up, what's not working like it's supposed to, and what people are doing to both fix it like they think it should be, and win elections as it is.
@janisf no, not at all. I don't particularly have faith in people, but at the same time, I do notice that people do get to vote, even if they vote for very stupid things.
And really, recognizing that people are voting for stupid things is part of trying to encourage people to stop voting for stupid things.
