Comment on Trans people in Kansas are being ordered to surrender their drivers licenses
daychilde@lemmy.world 9 hours agothey don’t have a choice
Please forgive me for quoting myself from elsewhere:
The problem is that you respect and believe in words. The people currently in charge could give two fucks. Ultimately, words only have the power that we give them, so when those in charge ignore the Constitution, then the Contitution has no power.
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In the same way, there are rules and decorum and traditions in politics and revolve around the Constution and various bodies of legislature, et cetera. And so there’s nothing that ACTUALLY forces anyone to follow any of that except voluntary compliance or physical threat because policing bodies enforce things.
This is why the rich are free, largely, from most crimes. They aren’t enforced. And this is how our democracy crumbled. The Constitution hasn’t been repealed. It doesn’t have to be. It is simply ignored. Worse, those who claim to follow it shit on it and ignore it and throw it out.
So I’m afraid they do have a choice in the same way they have ignored due process and habeas corpus, as one tiny example.
Madison420@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
Yeah nihilistic thought processes aren’t helpful. The only legal means of resistance is through the law and we most do it and do far honestly they’ve respected the process when push comes to shove because fascism has to pretend laws matter even when the law is dumb.
Can you name a time in recent history they’ve ignored going to court? I can’t. They’ve ignored the rulings at times but in this case you’re aiming for a class action to judicially overrule the legislation so they can ignore it all they want but the licenses would still revert back to being legal.