the Heritage project leans into what legal scholars refer to as a unitary view of executive power that suggests the president has broad authority to act alone.
Did the fascists not just come for student loan forgiveness on the bullshit claim that Biden didn’t have the executive power to do something like that?
Fuck these traitorous pieces of shit. If this shit doesn’t stop we’re about to be living in the fucking Pinochet regime (which was the brainchild of American conservatives, because of course it fucking was) and academics and musicians and authors are going to start getting disappeared along with our LGBTQ family, friends and neighbors. What a fucking shit show. And apparently there’s not much we can do about it, except vote. As though that’s ever done a fucking thing with an absolute anachronism of an electoral system.
I can’t help the nihilism sometimes, jfc.
If it makes you feel any better, voting doesn’t help either.
It’s fairly well understood at this point that US policymaking has nothing to do with the will of the people.
I feel like I need to step in and personally rebuke this shit. Voting absolutely does work. Showing up to vote once isn’t going to magically fix everything - it’s going to take many election cycles to reverse course. US policy doesn’t reflect the will of the people because we’ve been apathetic for so long. Saying “voting doesn’t help” implies there’s no point in voting, and not voting guarantees that we will lose our democracy. I’m sympathetic to those who have been hurt by the conservative and capitalist agenda in this country who are losing hope, but making claims like this essentially makes you an ally to the corpofascist machine.
Please vote.
Sure man.
If you were paying attention, you’d notice that manipulating the government has been a fine craft for the ruling class.
As in, they’ve carefully calculated how much they need to spend in order to influence public opinion. It isn’t much. They have way, way more to spend.
What we’ve seen is only the bare minimum they’re willing to put out to maintain control. It really is that simple.
