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US Politics 20h

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 The constitution also only originally gave land owning white men the right to vote and only counted slaves at 3/5 of a person. Fuck originalism. Most democracies reinvent or radically change themselves when the moment calls for it. Original =/= best.
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Yes, the Senate is undemocratic The founding fathers DESIGNED IT that way. You couldn’t even directly elect your senator until 1913. It’s democracy of the United STATES not United people
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Anonymous 16h

There is not a reason to change the Senate that isn’t rooted in Politics. It’s there for a reason. In such a massive system, you need checks on majoritarian power. The Senate and SCOTUS were intended to be those checks on tyranny of the majority.

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 15h

My brother in Christ, the senate is something inherently political. Yeah no shit any change in it would be political

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 13h

“Tyranny of the majority” is such a bogus way of criticizing democracy

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 13h

And every institution is political. Everything is political and acting like something isn’t is naive or dishonest

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 6h

No. The structure of the senate is a constitutional matter. It’s not rocket science. To change the structure of the senate, you’d need to amend the constitution. The constitution is not a political document. I can’t believe (1) you typed that shit and (2) people upvoted it.

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Anonymous replying to -> .gaia. 6h

That’s fine, but you’re intentionally pretending that there’s only two options. The politicization of an institution exists on a spectrum. It is not black and white.

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Anonymous replying to -> .gaia. 6h

An incredibly naive comment.

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Anonymous replying to -> .gaia. 6h

I’d like to point you to Israel as an example of a democracy with a degraded rule of law and practical lack of check on majoritarian power. The result? Apartheid.

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 2h

That’s because it’s a settler colonial state to begin with, not because of the way their Knesset it set up. That state should not have existed in the first place lol and should be dismantled entirely.

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 2h

It’s because it’s a nation of child killers, in the words of Norman Finkelstein lol

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 2h

The constitution is one of the most political documents lmao. The entire practice of American political science bases itself upon it among other things 💀. Neoliberal revisionism lol

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