With the advent of dictator Donald Trump and his dangerously unstable, violent, egomaniacal personality, the resistance from civic society has not risen to the deadly challenge either quantitatively or qualitatively.
It’s not that the system is bad, although it’s not robust enough, it’s that it was totally taken over, and no system can survive that. Congress isn’t inactive and complicit, it is, as well as all the other branches, under complete control of the same group of people it was supposed to keep in check, and that happened as a consequence of decades of direct political action.
People felt victim of apathysation and surrendered control of their country to grifters and frauds. That happens sometimes. Better luck next time.
It’s not that the system is bad, although it’s not robust enough, it’s that it was totally taken over, and no system can survive that. Congress isn’t inactive and complicit, it is, as well as all the other branches, under complete control of the same group of people it was supposed to keep in check, and that happened as a consequence of decades of direct political action.
People felt victim of apathysation and surrendered control of their country to grifters and frauds. That happens sometimes. Better luck next time.