My generation is so fucked. Between looming climate collapse, rising inequality, inaccessible housing market, it just feels like shit isn’t worth even trying for.
We can’t even get a small amount of our student loans discharged when prior generations paid basically nothing for them. And - let’s not forget - how corps got all of their ppp shit written off. What a joke.
We can’t even get a small amount of our student loans discharged when prior generations paid basically nothing for them. What a joke
the fact that it’s a 6-3 decision is the real meme here. clearly signals that literally no argument would have convinced the conservative majority here–they will always strike this down. real change on this front necessitates making the court irrelevant or just ignoring it at this point.
Right across ideological lines. It seems unlikely to get politics and ideological beliefs out of the Supreme Court any time soon. The states had no standing in the first place, I’m surprised it didn’t get thrown out just due to that.
The overreach by this court has been disasterous, especially in light of the unethical behavior by justices to accept gifts from would-be plantiffs without recusing themselves.
Yep. Unless we pack the court or do something drastic, the US is screwed for decades.
Something has to change. Between the way our legislators are apportioned, to the way the EC works for the presidency, to the SC lifetime appointments, it just feels like theres no fucking hope
Either the Democrats need to make some big changes internally, or a third party is going to have to break up the current duopoly. The current Democratic party sucks, as an effective opposition to the Republicans. The GOP just keeps drifting further to the far-right, and the Democrats continue to compromise even though the demands are becoming more extreme. This drags the whole government toward more conservative policies, regardless of which party is winning the elections.
Change isn’t going to happen when you have an aging centrist like Biden in the Oval Office. Governing by compromise is all he knows how to do. And yet, the Democrats still think they’re “winning” even though the GOP is actively twisting their arm with every policy they try to pass. We need more people in Congress who are actually liberals, not centrists, and recognize that the current system isn’t working for anyone outside outside of the 1%. Until that happens, the far-right is just going to keep turning up the heat, and the rest of the country is going to be stuck sitting there like a frog in a pot of water that is slowly being brought to a boil.
Third parties fail in a fptp system unfortunately. The whole fucking system needs to be reworked. Whether that happens before everything falls apart is anyone’s guess
Totally in agreement. One of the few things Republicans and Democrats agree on is keeping fptp the standard; it allows them to continue to dominate the election scene. Ranked choice voting would give third parties a fighting chance, so most people in the DNC and GOP will oppose it tooth and nail.
I don’t know that RCV would help either. I think you’d just end up with a conservative “centrist”. I mean, anyone voting for Bernie voted for him in the primaries. You put Bernie, Warren, Biden, Manchin, Kennedy, DeSantis, and Trump into a RCV together, and I don’t think you’ll like where the moderate Biden votes got second or third if he were to lose. At best you would just end up with Biden again.
Canada’s wildfires are currently 11x worse than they were at the same time last year. And 21x times worse than the average over the past decade. The world’s on fire and everything’s fucked. Feeling really defeated today.
As a fellow young person the only thing that keeps me motivated for change is the hope that when these guys all die (sorry this is so morbid) we can take some power and create some change.
My generation is so fucked. Between looming climate collapse, rising inequality, inaccessible housing market, it just feels like shit isn’t worth even trying for.
We can’t even get a small amount of our student loans discharged when prior generations paid basically nothing for them. And - let’s not forget - how corps got all of their ppp shit written off. What a joke.
the fact that it’s a 6-3 decision is the real meme here. clearly signals that literally no argument would have convinced the conservative majority here–they will always strike this down. real change on this front necessitates making the court irrelevant or just ignoring it at this point.
Right across ideological lines. It seems unlikely to get politics and ideological beliefs out of the Supreme Court any time soon. The states had no standing in the first place, I’m surprised it didn’t get thrown out just due to that.
The overreach by this court has been disasterous, especially in light of the unethical behavior by justices to accept gifts from would-be plantiffs without recusing themselves.
Yep. Unless we pack the court or do something drastic, the US is screwed for decades.
Something has to change. Between the way our legislators are apportioned, to the way the EC works for the presidency, to the SC lifetime appointments, it just feels like theres no fucking hope
Either the Democrats need to make some big changes internally, or a third party is going to have to break up the current duopoly. The current Democratic party sucks, as an effective opposition to the Republicans. The GOP just keeps drifting further to the far-right, and the Democrats continue to compromise even though the demands are becoming more extreme. This drags the whole government toward more conservative policies, regardless of which party is winning the elections.
Change isn’t going to happen when you have an aging centrist like Biden in the Oval Office. Governing by compromise is all he knows how to do. And yet, the Democrats still think they’re “winning” even though the GOP is actively twisting their arm with every policy they try to pass. We need more people in Congress who are actually liberals, not centrists, and recognize that the current system isn’t working for anyone outside outside of the 1%. Until that happens, the far-right is just going to keep turning up the heat, and the rest of the country is going to be stuck sitting there like a frog in a pot of water that is slowly being brought to a boil.
Third parties fail in a fptp system unfortunately. The whole fucking system needs to be reworked. Whether that happens before everything falls apart is anyone’s guess
Totally in agreement. One of the few things Republicans and Democrats agree on is keeping fptp the standard; it allows them to continue to dominate the election scene. Ranked choice voting would give third parties a fighting chance, so most people in the DNC and GOP will oppose it tooth and nail.
I don’t know that RCV would help either. I think you’d just end up with a conservative “centrist”. I mean, anyone voting for Bernie voted for him in the primaries. You put Bernie, Warren, Biden, Manchin, Kennedy, DeSantis, and Trump into a RCV together, and I don’t think you’ll like where the moderate Biden votes got second or third if he were to lose. At best you would just end up with Biden again.
I’m pretty sure we’re just fucked. I wish I wasn’t but… I just don’t see how any of this changes. I don’t.
Canada’s wildfires are currently 11x worse than they were at the same time last year. And 21x times worse than the average over the past decade. The world’s on fire and everything’s fucked. Feeling really defeated today.
As a fellow young person the only thing that keeps me motivated for change is the hope that when these guys all die (sorry this is so morbid) we can take some power and create some change.