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By a 6-3 majority, Supreme Court strikes down Biden's student loan debt relief plan
(www.supremecourt.gov)
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Yep. Unless we pack the court or do something drastic, the US is screwed for decades.
Something has to change. Between the way our legislators are apportioned, to the way the EC works for the presidency, to the SC lifetime appointments, it just feels like theres no fucking hope
Either the Democrats need to make some big changes internally, or a third party is going to have to break up the current duopoly. The current Democratic party sucks, as an effective opposition to the Republicans. The GOP just keeps drifting further to the far-right, and the Democrats continue to compromise even though the demands are becoming more extreme. This drags the whole government toward more conservative policies, regardless of which party is winning the elections.
Change isn't going to happen when you have an aging centrist like Biden in the Oval Office. Governing by compromise is all he knows how to do. And yet, the Democrats still think they're "winning" even though the GOP is actively twisting their arm with every policy they try to pass. We need more people in Congress who are actually liberals, not centrists, and recognize that the current system isn't working for anyone outside outside of the 1%. Until that happens, the far-right is just going to keep turning up the heat, and the rest of the country is going to be stuck sitting there like a frog in a pot of water that is slowly being brought to a boil.
Third parties fail in a fptp system unfortunately. The whole fucking system needs to be reworked. Whether that happens before everything falls apart is anyone's guess
Totally in agreement. One of the few things Republicans and Democrats agree on is keeping fptp the standard; it allows them to continue to dominate the election scene. Ranked choice voting would give third parties a fighting chance, so most people in the DNC and GOP will oppose it tooth and nail.
I don't know that RCV would help either. I think you'd just end up with a conservative "centrist". I mean, anyone voting for Bernie voted for him in the primaries. You put Bernie, Warren, Biden, Manchin, Kennedy, DeSantis, and Trump into a RCV together, and I don't think you'll like where the moderate Biden votes got second or third if he were to lose. At best you would just end up with Biden again.
I'm pretty sure we're just fucked. I wish I wasn't but... I just don't see how any of this changes. I don't.