Robert Kagan, an Editor-at-large for the Washington Post asks…
“How do you explain voters’ willingness to support Donald Trump despite the risk he poses to our system of government?”
I’ve been wondering that myself and thinking that it’s a fool’s errand to try to talk with MAGA Republicans about this. Why? They don’t give a shit about protecting our democratic system of government. In fact, they support “regime change.”
Kagan goes on the write…
Too many voters no longer care enough whether the system the Founders created survives and, thus, they are ceding the ground to those, led by Trump, who actively seek to overthrow what so many of them call “the regime.” This “regime” they are referring to is the unique political system established by the Founders based on the principles of universal equality and natural rights.
“A republic if you can keep it,” Benjamin Franklin allegedly said of the government created by the Constitutional Convention in 1787. This is the year we may choose not to keep it.
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Depressing, isn’t it?
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Very depressing…and frustrating.
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I don’t understand these people.
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Nor do I, but if their wishes come true and Trump gets reelected, they are going to live to regret it.
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And so will you and indirectly the rest of the world.
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I think the rest of the world is actually quietly looking forward to it.
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The same applies here too. So frustrating.
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As an outsider looking in, there’s nothing wrong with changing something if it is no longer working and it seems many people feel like it is no longer working.
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What is not working? Things are not perfect. They’ve never been, they never will be.
I hold with Winston Churchill (at least in this instance): “Democracy is the worst form of Government except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.”
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I agree. And I believe MOST Americans don’t want our current representative form of government to be replaced by an autocratic or theocratic dictatorship, but many are too blind to realize the implications of voting for Trump.
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Looking from the outside it’s incomprehensible. We have our own rightwing threat in Germany but Trump seems so crass and stupid.
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I do think a lot of people feel it no longer works. I have my doubts about the electoral college but otherwise the system CAN work if those elected choose to work for the people who elected them, not bought them.
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Kagan goes on the write…
Has this Kagan editor at large been paying attention to the righty “Originalist’s” method (or excuse or headfake) for doing stupid, corrupt, and hypocritical things in the Supreme Court? Even the liberals fall for some of it. And now neo-cons are playing a new game wherein they call themselves “liberal in the classic sense” whereas I’m referring to those who you would see as liberal like you. We could evolve if we weren’t pretending this was on the up-n-up (some of our citizens are pretending or fooled).
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