Post

"Will a Democratically controlled Congress have some tools to deploy? Some, but not as many as some may hope. What’s important to understand is how the very design of the Constitution is at the root of the problem." www.liberalcurrents.com/checks-and-b...

14/10/26, 6:10 am11 reposts31 likes

Greg

@gbwilliams1956.bsky.social

The US Constitution was designed by a property-owning elite to blunt popular majorities. Through counter-majoritarian checks—the Senate, Electoral College, lifetime judicial tenure, and structural gridlockit protects capital accumulation and status-quo power against transformative legislative reform

Jay

@notjobloggs.bsky.social

How thoroughly depressing.