• jordanlund@lemmy.worldOPM
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    2 days ago

    Not opposed to option 1, but I’d rather see it being part of the RICO act, round them all up as domestic enemies of the Constitution.

    Option 2 may be worse than what we have currently. 🤣 You’d have people with no knowledge of the law making legal decisions and in a way where they are completely uninformed.

    You want “Idiocracy”? Because that’s how you get “Idiocracy”. 😉

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      2 days ago

      I don’t buy these anti-democracy talking points, the problem in the US has always been that we have too little democracy.

      The People are often ahead of the Supreme Court historically - look at same sex marriage. Same sex marriage approval crossed the 50% threshold in 2011 but the Court didn’t reach that conclusion until 2015. Go back farther and look at segregation - the majority of the US approved of desegregating schools and busses at the time of the ruling. If this was a democracy we’d have had those rights possibly earlier because the Court is either in-line with or behind public opinion.

      And I know for a fact that a democratic Supreme Court wouldn’t have ruled in Citizens United that bribery is legal.

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        2 days ago

        You have more faith in the voting public than I do. 🤣 This is the same bunch that elected Trump twice, a second time after 34 felony convictions.

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              1 day ago

              We wouldn’t really be using our electoral system if everyone was a Supreme Court Justice, it’d be a much more direct voting system without an electoral college and if no result got >50% the Court would be hung and there would be no decision.

              Honestly better than our shitty elections.