Anonymous #2 5w

I noticed this too and then my classmates would be like “damn dude you’re smart where do you learn all this” when I’d cite multiple historical cases of a policy or geopolitical dynamic in my arguments and I’m like, bro this IS the major. You need to be deep-diving into case studies and shit. That’s what this is all about!

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Anonymous #3 5w

Im not even a poli sci major or anything, but I take the classes because they are fascinating. Like recently we discussed the Roe V. Wade overturning wasn’t necessarily just about abortion, but about State vs Federal power

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Anonymous #2 5w

I mean yeah Roe was weak Constitutional Law, which is why pro-choice legal experts had been BEGGING Congress to codify it as federal law for decades. I had to do a case brief on Dobbs v. Jackson for my American Judiciary class, and the legal reasoning in Dobbs isn’t even really wrong, even though I vehemently disagree with the effects of that decision. I agreed with Roe v. Wade, but it never should’ve been a SCOTUS issue. That shit should’ve been handled by Congress.

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Anonymous #3 5w

I was trying to explain this to people immediately following roe v wade (urging them to take their anger out on their representatives who failed to codify it for decades, not Biden for not doing an EO or SCOTUS for making a very unpopular but lowkey a little bit valid decision) and boy the internet did NOT like that (yet again letting their old fart congressperson get away with doing nothing and having zero accountability)

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Anonymous og_beer 5w

I think the current era of America is gonna go down in history as the weakest legislature we’ve ever had, just utter refusal to do their fucking job.

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Anonymous #3 5w

I really think it’s bc Americans are just too busy working to stay politically engaged, and the internet/news/social media being all doom and gloom have made people check out of politics that may have been interested in, so if they vote they either vote straight ticket or for whichever name they recognize the most. Congress people don’t have to do their actual job of listening to their constituents bc their constituents don’t ever tell them how they want to be represented

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Anonymous #3 5w

It’s why I really don’t think term limits are gonna do shit. It’s just flushing the toilet, we all know what’s going to go in there next. Bc the same people are filling it

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Anonymous landtrust 5w

Huh

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