It feels like the early days of Covid right now, where everyone is still living their lives normally but you know things are about to rapidly change for the worse.
Important to note this isnt a majority: 30% of eligible voters chose the president; and even of those, hardly any are very engaged with his current policies and behaivour.
It's important not to so quickly cede the democractic ground here -- this isnt a democractic movement. It's a 49% election of a president, with 30% of the eligble voters, who collectively did not vote for the constitution to be suspended. They voted for a president, an office which exists by and within the framework of that constitution. There was no referendum on whether the constitution should be amended to allow for effectively unlimited presidental power.
It feels like the early days of Covid right now, where everyone is still living their lives normally but you know things are about to rapidly change for the worse.
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If we elect somebody who then completely flaunts the law to harm people he hates, what's the difference?
Should the lawfully elected president have the right to just order somebody to shoot me in the head apropos of nothing?
The Constitution protects us from the whims of the majority.
Important to note this isnt a majority: 30% of eligible voters chose the president; and even of those, hardly any are very engaged with his current policies and behaivour.
It's important not to so quickly cede the democractic ground here -- this isnt a democractic movement. It's a 49% election of a president, with 30% of the eligble voters, who collectively did not vote for the constitution to be suspended. They voted for a president, an office which exists by and within the framework of that constitution. There was no referendum on whether the constitution should be amended to allow for effectively unlimited presidental power.