It seems to me that the Supreme Court is the root cause of this mess

[Stargazer99]

[Irish_Dem]

1. There is more than enough blame to go around.

So many guilty parties.

All three branches of government.
The federal bureaucracy.
The media.
We The People.

All folded like cheap lawn chairs and let fascist psychopaths take over the US government
and Treasury.

[Keepthesoulalive]

4. I've been resisting since Nixon

I have seen the rot up close. We have been protesting, praying, voting and preaching. We have done the hard work and no one listened. Endgame.

[Irish_Dem]

12. Yep. All the protests for women and civil rights, the environment, and against foolish wars.

All the progress made. Gone.

Yes game over.

Evil won.

[Keepthesoulalive]

18. I can't argue with that.

But I will keep resisting because I am not like the weak ass kissers.

[GreenWave]

2. Yep, pretending corporations are people. Kick can down road if anti-trump. pro-trump next day.

[Sneederbunk]

3. Yes, if you mean going back to 2000.

[Nictuku]

5. Mitch McConnel

[unblock]

6. It's the Koch brothers and other billionaires

They funded the right-wing propaganda network, which helped them buy elections, which helped them stack the federal judiciary and the Supreme Court, which helped them further gerrymander and otherwise restrict voting in key states and otherwise undermine our democracy, which helped create an environment perfect for a dictator to take control and govern with utter contempt for the people and the policies the people prefer.

[Oopsie Daisy]

7. It started with Nixon then Ford pardoning Nixon ... slowly at first, but we're approaching terminal velocity.

[patphil]

8. Yes, they are. The worst decision in SC history was the Citizens United vs FEC decision in 2010.

That opened the financial floodgates that allowed the ultra rich to buy elections.
Everything went down hill from there.
In this last election, Musk invested about $250. million to elect Trump and insure Republicans would control both Houses of Congress. And he wasn't the only one to combine to buy the government.
We now have a government of the billionaires, by the billionaires, and for the billionaires.
So much of what has gone wrong with our country since then can be traced back to that decision.

[Avalon Sparks]

9. 100%

This is without a doubt.

[Lulu KC]

17. Do you know what it might be, then?

Just curious.

[NoonTimeRag]

19. People cared about inflation

And didn't care about abortion. Biden was unpopular and she didn't or couldn't distance herself from him and... Here we are. I'm not sure there's anything that could've stopped this, so don't ask me for ideas on how to go foward.

[The Wizard]

10. As long as the Supreme Court

can legally be bribed our entire system is compromised.

[Bengus81]

11. And they of course knew that Biden would never abuse the power they criminally

gave to any setting President going forward. Biden could have had them tossed out and simply declared he won the election.

[SheltieLover]

13. Start with Ford pardoning prick nixon & every repuke going forward

[Meowmee]

15. It started long ago

but them stopping a full recount and anointing W was imo the start of all of this.

[Solly Mack]

16. That means the Federalist Society. That means conservatives.

[Johonny]

20. Republican voters are the root cause

They have voted against the interest of the working class my whole life. Never do they wake up that their own worst enemy is themselves. They are screwing themselves.

[republianmushroom]

21. The Roberts Supreme Court and Merrick the Meek. IMO

48 months and counting