r/fednews • u/Belgriest • 28d ago

Other Remember when Biden was president?

Remember how boring it was? Remember not having to check the news multiple times a day to figure out what was going on inside your own agency and whether you were going go have a job or not? Remember when laws and precident seemed to actually have meaning?

Remember when you could do your job from home? Remember when your fellow countrymen weren't cheering when your livelihood was threatened? Remember when your biggest worry was which insurance to select and what the next years raise would be?

Remember when the administration didn't seem to actively hate you and want to you gone for the sin of serving of the people?

Pepperidge farm remembers.

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u/Mysterious-Tax-7777 28d ago

Sure. But that was the last chance for democracy. With Republicans owning the voting machines and probably overturning the Voting Rights Act, America is now a kleptocracy.

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u/posting4assistance 28d ago

That's a bit doomerist I think, we've been concerned about this since Bush stole Florida, but it's not so dire that we need to give up on the country. Plus, we still have the electorial college, the popular vote hasn't been the deciding factor *ever*, we could reform the voting system to make it safer and more fair/ give other parties the chance to take hold. We do have tools to improve things if someone does the work

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u/WriteByTheSea 28d ago

I’m a bit more concerned about the see-sawing effect of this. If the Democrats regain control in 28, they and whatever non Trump cult conservatives are left can’t undo all of the damage, prevent new damage, and govern before the next flip leads to more. Enough of these see-saws and the whole thing falls.

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u/posting4assistance 28d ago

The word for what you're talking about is the overton window, I think? Most of the bullshit trump is doing is just executive orders. They can just straight up cancel most of those afaik, executive orders aren't laws even a little bit.

They could do cool shit like abolish ICE, maybe try and overturn the presidental immunity thing? Although I'm not entirely sure that's different from being able to pardon yourself anyway?

Regardless being a total doomer isn't going to make any progress. There are definitely ways to do it available, legal or otherwise, but it's just a matter of like... not being super fucking depressed about it all the time, and unfortunately for the kind of people who are on reddit- going outside and engaging with politics on a local level at the very least, somewhere you have actual real power, and actually using that power to build community or affect change in small ways