Our lawmakers are near all sociopathic nhilists that believe in nothing outside of self interest. The only check on their behavior is re election, remove that they will be worse their last term.

Lawmakers that have been in there forever and Corruption and misrepresentation of their constituents may seem correlated but it is not a causation.

It is not lawmakers being in there forever that has caused our lawmakers to suck. It is a very purposeful half-century long campaign by big business, from 1972 in the business Round Table that made a plan to corrupt and ultimately kill the Republic.

The one silver lining is that if the autocracy succeeds all of these guys will be supplanted, many by being persecuted. I suspect supreme leader will have a Joseph Stalin level of paranoia after the epic fight in the Viper pit for that position in 2028. That is if we do not get our shit together and get a popular muscular reform champion to run against them and overcome the vote rigging they plan on doing.

The rich people supporting him will get it worse than anyone, at some point they will start accusing them and seizing their assets, at first those that crossed the party, later seizing assets will be the end in itself.

Marcos saying he would be out there too if not prez.

If he is serious they should bring the hammer down on anyone buying luxury mansions and Villas and European sports cars with the what was it 9 billion US dollar equivalent of flood control projects that are sometimes non-existent in construction

He already bullied countries into backing off silicon valley regs and penalties, the eu appeased him so far.

The eu does not need the us they should have held firm, but I guess they are too busy trying to lock down the internet and read everything everyone has done online.

100 percent chance modi is running pegasus and like nso type spyware.

That was likely part of the deal, for expanded or continuing surveillance powers.

Pegasus and the like were likely the flame virus tweaked and repurposed, that infected iranian centrifuges and computers some 20 years back. Described as the most malicious virus to date back then, it listened and watched and logged and shared everything on iranian computers secretly even when off, and ruined centrifuges by mis tweaking their spin rates.

Any targets of bjp should ditch all smart phones.

Idk the term limits will help or hurt here. Being limited our lawmakers would sell out all the harder to set themselves up in their last term. It makes sense for executive positions because they can cement themselves in power.

I believe the answer is to organize and find and groom our own candidates that can win. Ones that will acknowledge and address the actual sources of our problems, which would be massively popular with voters you better believe it.

They are further along in fascism in some respects than the us is. They just have mealy mouth leaders that do not say the quiet part loud.

As a Mangione inspired billboard in Portland said, I think with a picture of part of mangione’s face, don’t look left or right, look up.

Racists are just tools of the super rich using them, religious, the ignorant disaffected, etc.

After they consolidate power they will be relegated with the rest of the population. They are being used because they are ill-informed, but they are not the ones pulling the strings, not the ones calling and running the plays here. It is moneyed interests doing that

Says the brigading tanky stroking off Russia and China.

Your argument is too stupid to refute, only a total fucking moron would want China or Russia’s government, get the fuck out of here.

Russicide, it is an epidemic.

Another russicide.

Finally is not accurate, I have known this my entire life and for over 16 years have been evangela sizing about the need for better opposition politicians offering a new deal rather than plutocratic rot led by the most unpopular candidates they could possibly find. Unpopular and candidates not fit for the moment. Everyone knows they are being screwed if not by whom. It has long been clear either the Democrats channel that anger or the Republicans will. The Democrats refused so now the Republicans will. And those Democrats are blaming everybody else. But they knew the situation and refused to change their strategy written in 1990.

Or arrogance and hubris of villains in politics, painting themselves as the lesser evil while aligned with their opposition against the voters they hsve contempt for.

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From a company who is intrinsic value cannot exceed 10 billion, a lot less now that the alienated half of the western world with his Nazi bullshit.

We know it can be done and that it works because that was how it was done when things did work, in the post-war years until the 1970s. Anything over an obscene amount was taxed at 90%, and wealth taxes at inheritance would take large chunks of generational wealth above obscene levels.

It is the system we have, it is better than most other systems in the world, and there is no way to change it for the better at this point in time. Supporting it being perverted into something else will lead to other perversions like we are seeing right now.

You are falling into the Trap of supporting everything the right wing purports to support. I imagine you also defend everything to the hilt that the right wing attacks. While they are trying to make those things worse, but those things have legitimate problems of Their Own.

Like Federal agencies, all of which are failing in their statutory duties. No offense but you guys are all fucking hopeless.

The right and Republican party is completely full of shit on everything, they believe in nothing. But the Constitution did set the country up for states to be like their own nations, that founding Charter gives the feds the authority to regulate interstate commerce, deal with foreign Nations and treaties, and that is about it.

That the right has cynically used that to further their own interests does not mean you should support the opposite of that. It is beyond clear that the federal government is a monster. It already was and now will be much worse. If you want a federal government with the power it has now maybe you should put forth a constitutional amendment because they do not have the authority to do the shit they are doing.

Indeed, and Indonesia did not change their government.