I read: “checks and balances do not work”
They arent working. Att least the checks and balances we have now.
HubertManne@piefed.social 1 month ago
checks and balances is not a lie it just does not work when folks don't do their job. its like they did the patriot act because bush jr. didn't do his job. No system can work when a significant amount of the components are bad actors.
Daft_ish@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
HubertManne@piefed.social 1 month ago
Yeah you can't be taught about future failures of a system. The only way for it not be able to not be working is for humans to not be in the equation of government. Which is one of the reasons ai taking over does not scare me. Either they kill us all. Win for the planet. Or they run things properly. Win for everybody.
Daft_ish@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
They dont teach future failers but they do teach the robustness of our checks and balances.
HubertManne@piefed.social 1 month ago
Its incredibly robust. Its lasted over two hundred years through several constitutional crises. Its possible it might even survive this. Whats happening now required complacency of a majority of both houses of congress, a large swath of the judiciary, plus the executive. Thats pretty damn robust. Its like saying a bridge is not robust even though its stayed up when some of its supports got destroyed but once over half of them were taken out it finally started to crack.
Cherry@piefed.social 1 month ago
No it was designed to look like it works. Smoke, mirrors, placation they amount to fancy words for lie. Governments and Capitalist leaders have been getting bolder and bolder and are not only saying it but trying to act like they deserve the ability to control the masses.
HubertManne@piefed.social 1 month ago
I totally disagree. I like many of the parliamentary systems that have come up but Im not sure I would want to switch to any of them. Although the swiss system is tempting.
thermal_shock@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Yeah, we entrusted too many shitty people.
sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 1 month ago
Threat actors are colluding... Democrats included
Daft_ish@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
I wouldn’t say democrats are in on it. I would say democrats are being lead by the same strings. It all ties back to the money. GOP and DNC alike are results of private interests. Now, how the private interests align cant really be known but it is something to think about. I mean its safe to assume there only function is to amass more wealth but then we are just talking about capitalism.
Truth is, normal people arent part of the equation they are a remainder that gets deemed negligible or shuffled to the side. Its absurd, really, when they are the driving force but to consider them anything other than a static is against all modern theories of capitalism.
This is probably the wrong venue for this discussion but I just wanted to say, I dont think democrats are in on it but are just as much chess pieces being moved around as the GOP are.
thermal_shock@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Dems are in on it too. Look at insider trading and Nancy pelosi. There is money to be made by them so they’re not in a hurry to change things either for the greater good.
sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 1 month ago
I can get behind that.. They are both regime whores with specific functions.
They dont call to shots, they execute daddy's master plans.
liuther9@feddit.nl 1 month ago
Starting from middle school (15-ish years ago) I was always enraged by the fact that people blindly follow a lying dictator. How hard can it be to not praise shitty lying scumbags? They are simple creatures who eat and shit like the rest of us. Dems are just controlled opposition (mostly). When I told some candidates are puppets I was laughed at, but later on everybody was shocked that their beloved candidate is just a paid actor.
Truth is most people are stupid af. They will always be manipulated by other stupid but evil people. All this shit will prevent normal people from being cooperative and resilient community. Society is doomed and Carl Sagan agrees on that. The only solution is smart dictator as in China (yeah people will hate me for this statement). People will suffer but as community they will prevail upon becoming sustainable.
You might disagree, laugh at me and call me a doomer, but I am already desensitized to it.