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So here's a question, what happens when a bunch of democrat states take Trump off the ballot, and a bunch of republican states take Biden off. Can an election even go forward at that point? (lemmygrad.ml)

submitted 10 months ago by yogthos@lemmygrad.ml to c/comradeship@lemmygrad.ml

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Colorado supreme court ruled that they can take Trump off the ballot, now it looks like California is trying to do that as well. Meanwhile, republican states are threatening to retaliate in kind.

This seems unprecedented for US, does anybody know what happens in this scenario?

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[–] yogthos@lemmygrad.ml 28 points 10 months ago (3 children)

I very much agree with this. The real concern people who care about the current system in US should have is with the precedent being set here. It's very obviously a political prosecution and liberals being the smooth brains that they are keep cheering this on. What they don't seem to realize is that once the precedent is set, then this will be how politics are done going forward. They're forging the tools that the future fascist government will use to jail all its opposition.

These idiots have infantile understanding of how fascists take over a country. They think it's going to be a spectacle like Jan 6 where armed mobs overthrow the government. The reality is that fascists will simply take over the existing state machinery. All the police militarization, surveillance laws, and so on are what's actually setting up the stage for open fascism.

[–] voight@hexbear.net 11 points 10 months ago

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[–] CrushKillDestroySwag@hexbear.net 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I don't agree with this "setting precedents is bad" logic. The Republicans have shown absolutely no qualms about breaking with previous precedents and setting their own, so why should the Democrats? From our POV this is just an indication that the collapse of US institutional legitimacy might proceed slightly faster than it was before, but it in no way alters the course that the political system has been taking since the neoliberal turn.

[–] yogthos@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 10 months ago

For sure, this is an indicator of how far the collapse of the institutions has progressed more than anything else. Deteriorating material conditions is the underlying reason that US institutions are losing legitimacy, and there's no path to fixing that problem that I can see within the current system.