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arrow-up1330arrow-down1external-linkOpinion | New emails show Trump’s stealing the election was always Plan Awww.msnbc.comspaghettiwestern@sh.itjust.works to politics @lemmy.world · 4 months agomessage-square45fedilink
minus-squareSerinus@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·4 months agoExcept that if we started over and wrote the Constitution from scratch, we’d be the United States of Walmart.
minus-squareCogency@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·4 months agoAren’t we already there? We need to start over.
minus-squareSerinus@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·4 months agoBelieve it or not, no. It could be a lot worse. The government is a thin layer protecting us from corporitocracy. It often fails, but getting rid of it isn’t going to make things any better. We’re still several steps above Russia, for now.
Except that if we started over and wrote the Constitution from scratch, we’d be the United States of Walmart.
Aren’t we already there? We need to start over.
Believe it or not, no. It could be a lot worse. The government is a thin layer protecting us from corporitocracy. It often fails, but getting rid of it isn’t going to make things any better.
We’re still several steps above Russia, for now.