The thing I find most jaw dropping in US politics is that Trump has already openly declared federal elections illegitimate. He's said that the federal government currently is miss-counting citizen's votes by millions of people. Wider than many margins of victory in presidential elections. Either he believes that's true, and that democracy no longer exists in America, and it's just not high on his priority list so he doesn't talk about it much. Or, he believes it's false and he just casually deligitimized democracy in the US.
I don't know how you can still support someone after they treat democratic legitimacy so flippantly. It's like the one core, sacred principle of America that voters control the government.
The point is valid but Joy-Ann “Time-Traveling Russian Hackers Made Me Look Homophobic” Reid, who constantly bashes Bernie, is a strange person to be making it
Siiimo on July 24th, 2019 at 06:56 UTC »
The thing I find most jaw dropping in US politics is that Trump has already openly declared federal elections illegitimate. He's said that the federal government currently is miss-counting citizen's votes by millions of people. Wider than many margins of victory in presidential elections. Either he believes that's true, and that democracy no longer exists in America, and it's just not high on his priority list so he doesn't talk about it much. Or, he believes it's false and he just casually deligitimized democracy in the US.
I don't know how you can still support someone after they treat democratic legitimacy so flippantly. It's like the one core, sacred principle of America that voters control the government.
NielsBohrFan on July 24th, 2019 at 08:21 UTC »
The point is valid but Joy-Ann “Time-Traveling Russian Hackers Made Me Look Homophobic” Reid, who constantly bashes Bernie, is a strange person to be making it
iWearThePantsHere on July 24th, 2019 at 08:26 UTC »
I agree with the sentiment but I very much do not like Joy Ann Reid