Boycott US
Overview:
The community dedicated to boycotting the US until they stop fascism, restore full democracy and start following international law.
Americans have a moral obligation to resist Donald Trump and project 2025 at every turn.
America is a flawed democracy currently being ruled by oligarchs. Stop the backslide! Dont let America become the next Hungary.
America needs to challenge the court rulings of citizens united v. fec and shelby county v. holder, protect the media, implement independent district drawing, and the single transferable vote so they don't end up having people stay home in life-changing elections because they cannot vote for their favourite candidate.
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I mean the de-nazifying would have to come with many expansions and clarifications of the constitution to make sure these things can't be done so easily again. Not even sure what all would be needed but I think a line stating no ruling of the supreme court can expand executive power might be one and maybe another saying any expansion of the executive power by congress has to be renewed every two years. I would like the executive split into a tribunal as well.
What would be needed is codification of the assumed "norms". That was the problem in Weimar, and that's the problem in the USA today: too many things were just "customs" and "norms of behaviour" without any actual legal teeth.
Maybe the US government can spend a decade or ten figuring out how to control themselves instead of controlling, say, what women do with their bodies. Or what people in general put into their bodies, for that matter. A whole lot of energy has been devoted to controlling women's biology. Maybe that energy could be redirected to controlling lawmakers' base instincts.
Oh. And cut the crap with "corporations are people". Or keep that crap, but extend it to jailing corporations and even executing them.
yes this is exactly the type of things we need or we will not completely crawl out of this.
Yup. You can't run a country based on "gentlemen's agreements", which apparently is what a large portion of the US federal government turns out to be made of.
Unsurprisingly, when people who aren't gentlemen gain power, those agreements mean nothing.