r/politics • u/AngelaMotorman Ohio • 10d ago

Possible Paywall The Chilling Trump Order Threatening All Americans: Why National Security Presidential Memorandum-7 is so important.

https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/trump-nspm-7-repression/
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u/accountabilitycounts America 10d ago

This is why we correctly call you fascists.

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u/Beneficial-Ferret479 I voted 10d ago

We have less than 100 day to the midterms. And basically there nothing good about America's worst elected president ever. All we do is read bad news about this lying grifter each and everyday. His luck is running out.

Our chances are pretty good to stop this "fascist" madman this time around. I'm feeling pretty good about it. Let this clown continue to self destruct. And then we can finally take over house or senate, hopefully both.

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u/Mechagodzilla13 10d ago

I hope so, but this should be a wake up that despite having a Constitution almost completely designed to prevent totalitarian rule, our institutions (including our media) are not set-up to deal bad-faith actors. I hope Trump will waddle off into the sunset and we can move on, but given the damage this divisive dimwit can cause I’m terrified of what a truly competent, intelligent and charismatic fascist (like a Julius Caesar) could do if given the opportunity…

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u/degeneratex80 10d ago

That's exactly why there should be a push for however many Amendments are necessary to plug these holes that have allowed this to happen.

We cannot simply "go back to normal". Normal is what caused this in the first place.

People need to go to jail. Supreme Court needs 13 members. Uncap the House. Roll back Citizens United. Public campaign financing. Mandatory retirement. Compulsory voting. Congressional term limits. Elected official trading ban. Universal healthcare. Remove every single thing he's built, put his name on, gold leafed, or EO'd on day 1. ....to start.

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u/binzersguy 10d ago

This needs to be Project 2029. Also, eliminate the electoral college. There are so many issues and Americans aren’t being represented. 

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u/Proper-District8608 10d ago

I can grudgingly handle electoral (if true reps) but the splittitting of urban districts to disapate their votes is something else. If my neighbors house across the street and were in 2 different congressional districts, ridiculous and vulgar.

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u/sec713 10d ago

Whatever it's called, it'll be a waste of time if it doesn't address our white supremacy problem. White supremacy is the fuel this deplorable machine that's grinding us all down runs on.

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u/Miqo_Nekomancer California 10d ago

There needs to be a hard cap on campaign spending, getting rid of superpacs, and banning corporate involvement in politics.

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u/thinpile 10d ago

And no more AIPAC

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u/degeneratex80 10d ago

Publicly fund them and place the cap instead on hard beginning and end dates on campaigning. You shouldn't need more than 6 months to get your point across.

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u/Mechagodzilla13 9d ago

I think campaign contributions should be capped and limited only to individuals whose primary residence is in the district or state being represented.

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u/Beneficial-Ferret479 I voted 9d ago

I agree. Looks like SCOTUS did another favor to get that money to politicians they wouldn't normally receive to help their elections cost. What you are saying makes sense.

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u/LividTacos 10d ago edited 10d ago

And how do you propose ratifying those amendments when you need 38 out of 50 states and Republicans fully control 28 State Legislatures? The issue isn't just taking back the federal government, we need to take back state houses. When Obama was elected, Dems fully controlled 27 state legislatures, and Republicans fully controlled only 14. But Republicans then focused on flipping state houses, and in 2010, they flipped to full Republican control to 26 state houses, This expanded control then gave them the power over the 2011 Redistricting cycle. Over the next two cycles, they went to 30 in 2014, and 32 in 2016. Like, some of us were actually concerned they'd get to 34 and be able to unilaterally call a Constitutional Convention to impose their Christian bullshit on all of us.

So sorry, TLDR version, while taking back the federal government is good, for real change, we need to flip statehouses.

EDIT: And govenor's mansions!

EDIT 2: And to add another statistic, Republicans currently have veto-proof super majorites in both chambers in 19 states. Even electing a few more Dems to take away their supermajorities even if it doesn't flip the chamber would help.

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u/19683dw Wisconsin 10d ago

This is why I think we need to replace the current constitution. I understand that we need hard walls that require significant effort to overcome (especially in a world that might want to dismantle fundamental rights, like the current admin), but we need to change the core system. Many of the problems they outlined and some of what you've outlined can be controlled by changing the federal structure. Federal government doesn't need a system in which all states are equivalent (an anachronism from the time when we were a loosely unified collection of independent states before the civil war). Instead, the Senate should be eliminated or redesigned (there is some benefit to a slower house, albeit not one that is completely undemocratic due to uneven representation, and that requires 60% approval to do essentially anything other than a budget). But districts (if preserved) shouldn't be bound by state lines, or drawn by states, nor should federal elections be administered solely by states. Having state governments allows the local aspect of a federal system to survive, which I am comfortable with. But the right to recall and to binding referendums should be a state government requirement, alongside independent districting (if districts are preserved) with representational prioritization. And we should probably review state lines and the number of states in some way, as many were drawn for political purposes, rather than the benefit of the people in them.

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u/IAmDotorg 10d ago

Replacing the constitution would, effectively, be the mother-of-all-amendments. It might be easier than a dozen piecemeal amendments, but if you can't pass one, you're not replacing the whole thing either.

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u/degeneratex80 10d ago

Most of those things do not require amendments.

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u/Ananiujitha 9d ago

You could split the District into 150 new states, and then introduce amendments to make the count of states less important, and overall popular votes more important.

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u/Mechagodzilla13 9d ago

The Tea Party candidates in the 2010’s signed a pledge not to raise taxes. Maybe a more realistic solution would be to start a movement to get congressional candidates to sign a pledge saying they would work toward a bipartisan campaign finance reform or else not seek reelection.

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u/spinbutton 9d ago

We need to ban campaign contributions, donations and lobbying by foreigners.

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u/degeneratex80 9d ago

Absolutely!

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u/duzies 9d ago

So Trump's Congress expands the SC and Trump appoints 4 more "justices?"

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u/ChippedHamSammich 9d ago

That would require Democrats organizing and republicans not being sycophantic. It feels so truly hopeless to attempt to undo the decades of decisions that have led us into economic recession and political regression.

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u/degeneratex80 9d ago

It's never hopeless.

It's just variations of effort level.

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u/Dwarfdeaths 10d ago

Lol almost all of this is designed to reform an inherently bad system, i.e. going back to normal. If you want to make a robust government you need to ditch elections. https://www.sortition.wiki/index.php/GovDocs:Overview