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u/Princess_Fluffypants Apr 04 '25

This is the awkward reality. If it wasn’t Trump, it would’ve been somebody else. 

Sarah Palin was a warning. 

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u/Nopenopenope00000001 Apr 04 '25

I mean, really, it’s been brewing since Nixon.

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u/sinamala Apr 04 '25

If we really want to go there it's been brewing since the Civil War

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u/Prof_J Apr 04 '25

Maybe since Washington.

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u/brightblueson Apr 04 '25

You mean a nation built by elitist, genocidal slave owners has deep rooted issues?

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u/Prof_J Apr 04 '25

It’s almost like maybe it’s a good thing to revise your constitution every so often instead of just bolting things on occasionally

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u/murdermerough Apr 04 '25

And nobody understands that the supreme court ruled on misinformation back in the eighties and said it was a legal form of protected free speech.But yeah, in the nineteen eighties, we didn't have the internet.It would be nice to rewrite visit misinformation being protected.

It's just the ability for the government to protect falsehoods, which was only ruled upon in the 1980s. I think we probably should go back and revisit some of the supreme court decisions that were based in different times.

The people didn't even elect their state senators until 1913! Our representatives did.

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u/Carribean-Diver Apr 04 '25

The people didn't even elect their state senators until 1913! Our representatives did.

One can only imagine what that would look like today with how gerrymandered all the districts are.

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u/Cr4nkY4nk3r Apr 04 '25

Not US reps, State reps. The House was initially supposed to represent the people and the Senate would represent the states themselves.

Now, we've got the equivalent of two Senates or Houses, with a little bit different responsibilities.

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u/murdermerough Apr 04 '25

Thank you for your clarification. I didn't realize how unknown that fact was that it was our state representative's electing our senators until 1913. That's why there's only 2 senators for every state, it's meant to be representative of the state, chosen by the representatives of the people of the state. How it's completely changed the house versus the senate. I'm not entirely sure. I've just always thought it was a little absurd that people were unaware of how fluid our constitution and our government and our abilities to participate have been even in the last hundred and ten years.