So it’s meaningless to say Russia’s a legitimate democracy and putin is the legitimate democratically elected leader? Batista was in Cuba too, I guess…he held elections. The July 26 movement (and others) boycotted them because they were just dumb…they shoulda just voted harder! They just didn’t understand that democratic legitimacy doesn’t matter. Maybe they should have circulated a petition to stop the slavery and torture and stuff.
I don’t know what the material effect of the lack of faith in the electoral system caused by these parties getting less and less interested in pretending the US is a democracy will be…but it’s not inside my head, man. The rest of the world (and history) are paying attention. Other countries are (and should be) distancing themselves from the United States.
That’s not a mechanism that overturns the result. There’s nothing in the Constitution that says …
It’s as though you think Almighty God handed down the Constitution of the United States as immutable laws of the universe. As though the only thing that matters is which flavor of asshole is sitting on the throne.
The constitution only lays out the rules of the game, but if the game is bullshit, the game is bullshit. Should we change the rules of the game? Should we keep playing the game? What do I do when the rules of the game are not fair? What do I do when if the rules are fair but another player is pointing a gun at me? Questions like this cannot be answered by the rules of the game.
So it’s meaningless to say Russia’s a legitimate democracy and putin is the legitimate democratically elected leader? Batista was in Cuba too, I guess…he held elections. The July 26 movement (and others) boycotted them because they were just dumb…they shoulda just voted harder! They just didn’t understand that democratic legitimacy doesn’t matter. Maybe they should have circulated a petition to stop the slavery and torture and stuff.
I don’t know what the material effect of the lack of faith in the electoral system caused by these parties getting less and less interested in pretending the US is a democracy will be…but it’s not inside my head, man. The rest of the world (and history) are paying attention. Other countries are (and should be) distancing themselves from the United States.
It’s as though you think Almighty God handed down the Constitution of the United States as immutable laws of the universe. As though the only thing that matters is which flavor of asshole is sitting on the throne.
The constitution only lays out the rules of the game, but if the game is bullshit, the game is bullshit. Should we change the rules of the game? Should we keep playing the game? What do I do when the rules of the game are not fair? What do I do when if the rules are fair but another player is pointing a gun at me? Questions like this cannot be answered by the rules of the game.
Something that actually accomplishes a change in some way. Boycotting an election isn’t that.