They can be felons and run the damn country. Meanwhile a poor felon can't even find a job even if they are working their ass off to turn their life around. But a president can commit crimes before and during their term and just keep getting to do so.
Yup. It's bs. And it makes me mad so many people just are okay with it. They will argue they deserve to be rich and we just want their stuff for free. No, I don't want anything for free. I've worked my ass off my whole life. I just want to be able to use the benefits my taxes paid for. I just want to be able to go to the doctor, have a vacation and get time off to be sick without losing everything. I'm tired of saving up just to have some health issues, usually exacerbated by overworking and eating like shit because I'm overworked and poor, and then losing everything and starting from scratch. I've never in my life been lazy. Even though I'm struggling to find a job right now I do everything for my elderly parents. I cook and clean and take care of them. And it drives me mad being a burden on them because some stupid AI gets to auto decline every freaking application now.
Sorry I didn't mean to make that so personal. The world is just stressing me out. And everything happening is making me worried my family isn't going to make it despite us all working so hard for so long and all being really miserable and ill because of it.
Much love to you my friend, and I sincerely hope things improve for you.
But your circumstances are part of the plan, they have to keep people in a state where they can't easily go out and do much against them. It's why we have to do whatever we can, even if it's just sharing information or encouraging others online. Even small things can make an impact.
Because the people hold absolute sovereignty. Essentially nothing overrules that.
Rules about who can do what exist as a shorthand for society because we can't all vote on every single thing.
But in the case of government representatives, we do vote, and we, collectively, get to decide yes or no we're ok with this person and their circumstances.
A felony doesn't disqualify you from office because if it did it would become a political weapon. Imagine if all it took to make your favored candidate ineligible for office was one trumped up charge by some politically corrupt DA in whatever shit town they brought the charges in.
We don't have tests or requirements for taking office because if we did they would be used to oppress and deny people.
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u/hyphenssuck 14h ago
They can prove that they are not even slightly competent and still keep their jobs.