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Democracy Requires Disempowering the Supreme Court

jacobin.com Democracy Requires Disempowering the Supreme Court

New rulings on presidential immunity, workers’ rights, and Chevron deference make it clear: we can have social progress or we can have a powerful Supreme Court, but we can’t have both.

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We don't have a true democracy and never have. If we did, Trump and Bush II would never have become president as neither received as many votes as their opponents.

Second, any speculative changes on a macro level require either violence on a revolutionary scale or for 49% of voters to pull the lever for a third party instead of Democrats or Republicans.

I think it's more likely WWIII will disrupt America's politics before we have another revolution, and I know full well that our partisans are too well-programmed to pull the lever for anyone other than Democrats and Republicans, so I don't anticipate any meaningful positive change in the near future.
- I voted 3rd party in 2016, because fuck the 2- party system. I'll do it again once we get ranked-choice voting, but not before.
  
  Your vote is your right to do with as you please, but this is the thinking that's set us inevitably on the 44-year path to fascism.
  
  Do you live in a swing state? Because if you don't, might as well vote third party
- I'm not sure that the electoral college precludes qualifying as a democracy. Voter disenfranchisement certainly seems to put a wrench in the idea though.
  
  Considering its abject failure twice in recent memory, I'd say it is quite evident that it precludes qualifying as a democracy.
  
  But, originally, our founding fathers only intended for rich, landowning men to vote, so the US was never intended to be a democracy anyway.
...then you'd need another higher grade more-supreme court... maybe just don't let the members be chosen by obviously biased politicians
- I am in favor of all 9 justices being elected every 4 years, by popular vote.
  
  Problem is that any ongoing cases would need to be stopped too. That's actually a good thing for Trump because he can reset the timer on all of his cases
- Impeach the whole thing and reform with more seats and impose a term limit.
Mmm yes disembowel the supreme court

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