“How’s the Democratic Party’s ground game in Pennsylvania?” I asked a friend several weeks before the 2024 presidential election. He replied optimistically that there were far more door knockers this year than in 2022.
It turned out these door knockers were just urging a vote for the Democrats without putting forth a compelling agenda attached to candidate commitments on issues that mean something to people where they live, work, and raise their families. There was no Democratic Party “Compact for the American People.” Then-President Joe Biden visited Pennsylvania, which went Republican, many times, with his most memorable message being that he grew up in Scranton.
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Their aversion to building their own momentum to answer the basic questions “Whose side are you on?” and “What does the Democratic Party stand for?” remains as pathetic as it was in 2022 and 2024.
How do we overturn Citizens United
Since it’s a Supreme Court ruling, it would take another SC ruling or a constitutional ammendment to override it.
Make a new government.
Expand the Supreme Court. It’s not even a radical idea. We have one SC justice for every superior court circuit. The number of circuits has grown, the number of justices hasn’t, and there’s no reason they can’t or shouldn’t, except that it’d dilute the donors’ power.
congress and the senate would have to make s new law snd the president would have to sign it.
Citizens United isn’t a law, it’s a Supreme Court ruling which has its (flawed) logic based on the Constitution. A law won’t cut it, because Citizens United would be used as precedent to strike it down as unconstitutional. We likely need a new Supreme Court ruling or constitutional amendment.
Maybe we form a micronation that’s basically like the US government but socialist?
Does anyone think I should study and read a bit more theory?
Not possible without claiming land. Claiming land that belongs to a sovereign nation is an act of war.
The CIA would like to know your location
Do you think I’m fedposting?
I dunno, are you fedposting? 🤨
But nah that wasn’t my implication. Just that starting a micronation that’s “the United States but better” would certainly attract some attention.
What about a micronation under a distinct name, flag and seal?
It doesn’t matter what you call it. You can’t do the United States but better. It will make the United States look bad. You must fail. The imperial hegemony demands it.
Well crap, if you are correct, then we really, truly are fukt.
There is no way we’ll see a constitutional admendment, especially not one for the people and agaisnt big business. Not in my lifetime. Its fascism from here on out. Fuuucccckkkkkkk.
I’ve heard there’s ways states can resist it with their own legislatures but yeah, it’s pretty bad. This really is the one thing we need overturned though
At this point, can we use force? Just asking.
The people it benefits would have to decide to not benefit from it anymore.
So not likely unless the alternative is even worse.