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In reply to the discussion: Furious Democrats Reportedly Float Dramatic Idea:Throwing Out Virginia's Supreme Court to Push Through Gerrymandered map [View all]PatrickforB
(15,513 posts)something better and much less corrupt in its place.
Honestly, I don't think the idea of Trump as an aberration and then back to business as usual is going to work this time. When Republicans stopped wanting to actually govern and instead went all-out on winning and amassing power, they became a cancer that needs to be rooted out, as so Wall Street and the modern robber barons.
We need to be using block chain to ensure absolute transparency around where money goes and imposing severe sanctions on corruption. This, of course, will cause us to have to rethink the whole first and second chakra blockages that have allowed the paranoid and profit-hungry military industrial complex to grow into the corrupt monster it is.
I'm fucking TIRED of having MY tax dollars spent on shit that doesn't even come close to helping me. A trillion dollar war budget? Sorry - rather have HEALTHCARE. A huge bloated secret police force called ICE rounding up brown skinned people? Sorry - rather have free college for my grandkids. A prison-industrial complex with concentration camps as its flagship? Nope. Sorry. I'd much rather have childcare subsidies. A political-industrial complex that soaks people for money in return for 'fighting for' them? Sigh. Sorry - rather have the rules of corporate governance FORCIBLY changed to a stakeholder approach that holds the interests of workers, consumers (including truth in news reporting) and the environment equal to shareholder profits. Reinstatement of Jim Crow due to the Klan part of the Supreme Court legislating from the bench? Nope. Absolultely not. I want the original voting rights act COMPLETELY REINSTATED IMMEDIATELY. Gerrymanders? Nope. It would be much better to have nonpartisan groups set logical boundaries based on actual communities.
To reiterate in ways the Democratic movers and shakers on this site can understand better, I'm FUCKING TIRED of being TAXED WITHOUT REPRESENTATION. Because this government the Democrats allowed to cheat its way into power with the help of Thiel, Musk and other tech-bro robber barons is the end game of the effort Wall Street financiers and robber barons begun clear back in 1935 to gut the New Deal which they hated.
I'm so fucking tired of these little boys in billionaire suits sucking energy from the grid like parasites with their AI data centers, designed ultimately to impose a surveillance state on us.
When are we going to fucking WAKE UP and get ugly?
You know our government has pretty much stopped even pretending to