• stermy4u@lemmy.worldOP
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    13 hours ago

    This system is a pile of shit.

    If you get into office and change your tune to the opposite of what you ran on, we have to primary you? Shouldn’t that be cause for removal in its own? You work for me, idrgaf what your opinions are.

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      12 hours ago

      John Fetterman is also a piece of shit.

      Edit: you said pile while I only mentioned piece. He certainly is multiple pieces so apologies for not piling on.

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      12 hours ago

      Lower levels have “recall elections” for this explicit reason.

      They’re not built into Senatorships, because people weren’t even supposed to vote for Senator’s, state governments were supposed to just appoint them as the states representatives

      The house was for the people to have representation, not the Senate.

      We’re way past the point of salvaging our system, there’s a reason the founder’s wanted to redo the constitution every 20 years

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        12 hours ago

        Lower levels have “recall elections” for this explicit reason.

        States have rolled a lot of that back, or made it so prohibitively expensive to attempt that only billionaires can oust a state politician they don’t like.

        I might argue that the problem isn’t Fetterman specifically, but the stakes at play when someone like Fetterman is a singular representative for 13M people. One Fetterman in a sea of politicians would be annoying but incidental. One in a tiny cabal that’s on a tipping point of partisan control is glaring in it’s corruption.

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      12 hours ago

      If you get into office and change your tune to the opposite of what you ran on, we have to primary you?

      You have to wait six years, and then you get to primary.

      This is because the Founding Fathers, in all their wisdom, determined that loud patriotic farting noises