Quote (Goomshill @ 9 Sep 2023 16:18)

You can non-comply and then what?

Governors and lawmakers and unelected authorities can simply make declarations that violate the constitution and then demand their enforcement and imprison those who denounce it as unconstitutional. The courts can try to reject it and overturn them, but they can simply make more unconstitutional mandates and keep piling them on with nothing but a proclamation, while courts need years of deliberations for each case. And every time you fall through the cracks and don't get bailed out by the higher courts, when they don't have time, or the lower courts have been invaded by an activist judiciary? You're the one being trodden upon.
But the founding fathers put in checks and balances for these kinds of situations and the states copied them into their constitutions- if a leader becomes odious, they can be impeached. Which falls flat once an entire political party with a majority power is willing to prop up the farce. And at that point the system just breaks down. We saw it before the civil war with nullification crises, the fugitive slave act, etc

Its a simple fact that our system of checks and balances only works when the lawmakers obey a shared civil ethos. Once that's gone, they're just eroding our democracy

Quote (Black XistenZ @ Sep 10 2023 08:06am)

These types of politicians still have to face voters quite frequently. Ultimately, the issue isn't so much the progressive activists who try to circumvent the Constitution, the issue is that voters don't punish them enough for their transgressions.

Over the past 10-15 years, the political left in the US (and pretty much the entire Western world) has completely lost it. What's even worse is that they have successfully captured a critical mass of institutions - not just the mainstream media but also the bureaucracy, academia, large chunks of the judicial system and, increasingly, also the corporate world. The ensuing propaganda was extremely successful and has gotten 50+% of the population to either happily follow them off the ideological cliff into lala-land, or to at least not care about the disastrous course. Figures like Grisham and her antics are just a symptom of this much larger problem.

Quote (Black XistenZ @ 10 Sep 2023 00:06)

These types of politicians still have to face voters quite frequently. Ultimately, the issue isn't so much the progressive activists who try to circumvent the Constitution, the issue is that voters don't punish them enough for their transgressions.

Over the past 10-15 years, the political left in the US (and pretty much the entire Western world) has completely lost it. What's even worse is that they have successfully captured a critical mass of institutions - not just the mainstream media but also the bureaucracy, academia, large chunks of the judicial system and, increasingly, also the corporate world. The ensuing propaganda was extremely successful and has gotten 50+% of the population to either happily follow them off the ideological cliff into lala-land, or to at least not care about the disastrous course. Figures like Grisham and her antics are just a symptom of this much larger problem.

Quote (Black XistenZ @ Sep 9 2023 06:06pm)

These types of politicians still have to face voters quite frequently. Ultimately, the issue isn't so much the progressive activists who try to circumvent the Constitution, the issue is that voters don't punish them enough for their transgressions.

Over the past 10-15 years, the political left in the US (and pretty much the entire Western world) has completely lost it. What's even worse is that they have successfully captured a critical mass of institutions - not just the mainstream media but also the bureaucracy, academia, large chunks of the judicial system and, increasingly, also the corporate world. The ensuing propaganda was extremely successful and has gotten 50+% of the population to either happily follow them off the ideological cliff into lala-land, or to at least not care about the disastrous course. Figures like Grisham and her antics are just a symptom of this much larger problem.

Quote (fender @ Sep 10 2023 02:04am)

you can't possibly be gullible and ignorant enough to genuinely believe msm is somehow "left", lol. they HATE progressive ideas. just because they don't appeal to the complete crazies that trump turned a lot of "conservatives" into, doesn't mean they are politically left...

Quote (Mondain @ 9 Sep 2023 03:02)

Can't make guns go away in a world flooded with guns.
The cat is out of the bag and it's never going back in.

Quote (Crunkt @ Sep 13 2023 11:58am)

only the US is flooded with guns

you know, facts, math, statistics.. all of that?

its not the world lol its just you

Quote (zorzin @ 13 Sep 2023 12:40)

Canada has an absolute insane amount of guns per capita and an even more unregistered amount. Sorry you live in Toronto and are /nogunz but the rest of the country doesn't share your predicament