The next time someone tells you the youth aren’t engaged enough in politics, just point them to Nepal.
According to multiple reports, the youth of the South Asian nation managed to oust the existing government following an attempted ban of major social media platforms and took to Discord to hold an impromptu convention to elect an interim prime minister.
The organizing appears to have worked. On Friday, the military accepted the recommendation of the protest group and named Karki the interim prime minister. Karki, who accepted the role, is expected to pick a new cabinet and eventually hold elections. According to the Times, that is expected to happen within the next six months or so.
smaller countries have an easier time getting better government because in smaller countries, things are closer by, and it’s easier to just walk up to your prime minister’s house and set it on fire if he misbehaves. in the US, which is a thousand kilometers across, you can’t just walk there.
I’m actually in favor of bringing political responsibility back to the local level. That means, communities largely organize themselves, with only few interactions with the federal government.
I usually disagree with right-wingers, but maybe they’re right about the small government thing. I much rather leave most of the governing up to the states. At least texans and floridans can’t fuck up my life from that far away.
The federal government has become the monster it was checked and balanced not to.
We celebrate the feds ursurping authority because slavery, and then civil rights, but the feds are only authorized domestically to regulate interstate commerce, and forbidden from placing restrictions on movement of goods and people in the country.
We would have support across the country forcing the feds to back off getting into everybody’s business.
Here we are with feds bringing military troops into cities to occupy the hoods the country has made, a clear violation of their authority. This is just getting warmed up, we should pass a constitutional smmendment forbidding the feds from income taxes beyond soc. sec., medicare, medicaid, etc really.
It could pass by referendums in 30 dome states, would just need a handful more.
It sounds extreme but is the only way to stop the executive branch long term.
It’s absolutely possible to have a strong federal government without getting into the shit show we have today. The problem is when federal authority gets distilled into a handful of people and detached from popular representation or recall.
“Getting the feds to back off” has been the laughable fig leaf that the right has used to dismantle the normal operation of our government for 200+ years. Now you’re buying into balkanization when they’ve enacted their coup?
We don’t need more limits on the only structure that can mitigate/navigate climate collapse; the only thread that historically has opposed the oppression of the deep south; the only speedbump that could even moderately oppose the hegemony of the ultra wealthy.
The US constitution was designed to entrench the power of the white landowner class, and that has remained true in spite of the consistent creep of federal authority. It’s just not possible to mount any opposition to the massive weight of their capital in any other way.
So no, don’t restrict the Fed’s authority to do any of that. Just give us the tools to get real, fair representation and hold our representatives accountable. Every other needed reform and restructuring could be done with no problem once we have that.
that won’t solve the problem. people just have very different views of how the path should continue forwards. you’re not going to unite that. if you represent fairly, you might end up with a federal government that is 50% democrat and 50% republican, but that just means that everybody only gets half of what they want.
The right and Republican party is completely full of shit on everything, they believe in nothing. But the Constitution did set the country up for states to be like their own nations, that founding Charter gives the feds the authority to regulate interstate commerce, deal with foreign Nations and treaties, and that is about it.
That the right has cynically used that to further their own interests does not mean you should support the opposite of that. It is beyond clear that the federal government is a monster. It already was and now will be much worse. If you want a federal government with the power it has now maybe you should put forth a constitutional amendment because they do not have the authority to do the shit they are doing.
Yes and when the Constitution was written they were basically 13 semi-sovereign states who were such nascent politicians that they couldn’t imagine a government without a king (just renamed president). The constitution should have been entirely reworked after the Civil War and probably needed more major revisions as the population, topography and demographics of the nation changed.
The state of our federal administration is fucked because the constitution is fundamentally flawed. If it was written for a modern world, the federal government would have the foundation to weather this assault and possibly the teeth to nip the rot in the bud. At the very least it wouldn’t be so rigid that people like you feel the need to cling to a centuries old piece of paper as infallible.
Using a maliciously broken system as self evidence for its abandonment and prohibition is absurd. There’s nothing inherently more oppressive or evil about a federal government than a smaller state government. If you’re not considering a restructure to address the root flaws then you’re just whinging over which boot you’d prefer to kick in your door.
It is the system we have, it is better than most other systems in the world, and there is no way to change it for the better at this point in time. Supporting it being perverted into something else will lead to other perversions like we are seeing right now.
You are falling into the Trap of supporting everything the right wing purports to support. I imagine you also defend everything to the hilt that the right wing attacks. While they are trying to make those things worse, but those things have legitimate problems of Their Own.
Like Federal agencies, all of which are failing in their statutory duties. No offense but you guys are all fucking hopeless.