And no one can or will stop the destruction.

El Salvador for the medicaid/care fraud.

The system does not work because people like eloonitic get 10s of billions from the government for his waste and fraud, like Rick Scott, then they pay a small fine and become Senators and defacto presidents, and continue the grift.

All the while they send gay hairdressers and dads with autistic kids to gulags in foreign adversary prisons with more of our millions of tax dollars.

There is no consequences for these scumbags.

Not the workers
Not the services
Not the salaries
Not the benefits
Just the greedy rich slopping at the trough, it's never enough.

trump 2.0 doesn't have any of the generals like Kelly, Matis, Espel and Milley who were the adults in that first trump admin who protected the nation from his foolish power impulses.

Instead we haven Patel, Gabbard, Hegseth, Bondi and Vance.

We're so screwed.

But here we are

There is really no other structure.
The checks and balances are worthless.

All it takes is one psychopath to destroy it all, no one will stop him.

a psychopath like trump who ignores it and has cowed the rethugs in the House, the Senate, and owns the corrupt SCOTUS 6.

There is much doubt that the federal district and circuit courts can stop trump's lawlessness because we know him and his cabal are going to appeal, appeal to get everything to SCOTUS, which gave the fucker immunity.

When I say "the system basically works", I mean the federal government, not the electoral system. There is a persistent right wing myth that government bureaucracy does not work. That is just a lie and a pretext for cutting vital programs so the rich can have a tax giveaway.

I agree with you that there is a problem with our electoral system though. When a billionaire can buy the presidency, that is a problem. When someone convicted of multiple felonies can become President, that is a problem also.

Trump should have been stopped with a court conviction and imprisonment prior to the election of 2024. And there should be an amendment to the Constitution. No convicted felon should be able to be President.

Frankly, Trump should have been found guilty of insurrection, and that would have disqualified him from ever being President again. So the electoral system is flawed and that is a problem. But when I said "the system basically works", I meant the federal government and federal workers, not the electoral system.

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to run out the clock before the '24 election, and/or until cases got to the corrupt SCOTUS 6 who gave him immunity and were waiting as his backstop.

And there was that pudgy-faced judge presiding on the MAL docs case who kept ruling against SC Smith, also the crooked state court apparatus in Georgia. DA Bragg in NYC and NY state AG James got convictions but the rigged system delayed and delayed and the insurrectionist we all saw try to overthrow the government on J6 got away with it.

And is now president again. I never thought it could happen in America.

that was designed to discriminate against anyone other than white land owners, then consider the cruelty against Native Americans, Slaves, Women, anyone that stood in the way of those in power or control - how can you say the system works?

To bring everything to current times - after the corruption and disgusting things that Trump did and he was never held accountable....excused....re-elected...the system does not work.

I agree with your point about the history of the country. I need to clarify- when I said "the system basically works", I meant federal programs like Medicaid, Medicare, and Social Security. Those systems are not perfect, but they are good and they work. I also meant that federal workers are effective as well, despite right wing talking points to the contrary. But your point about the historical shortcomings of the American way is well taken.

than private competitors. The danger we now face is will they continue to work. After all,, we all know that the right has been trying since their implementation to stop them in an effort to privatize everything in America.

For whatever reason, the people do not support solutions that put citizens interests above profit - seems strange to me?

but has loopholes that clever lawyers use to keep Native Americans, POCs, women, LGBTQ+ and others down. Even with all the amendment, the system is still so established that it still works for the mostly for the white male establishment.

A strong democracy is what we need going forward… and it needs a lot of strengthening.A

And Accoutability.

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However the system of government has put an insane mass murderer in charge again and there was no way to stop him from running again or to hold him accountable. The system also lets an unbalanced electoral college decide who wins the election. And much more.