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When it all started to unravel was when Al Gore chose not to fight in 2000 for the recount of the votes in Florida. The U.S. Supreme Court led by Scalia and Sandra Day O'Connor chose in favor of Bush in violation of the U.S. Constitution and Gore did nothing. Gore did get a nice payday reward from Google's owners but democracy took a hit…
When it all started to unravel was when Al Gore chose not to fight in 2000 for the recount of the votes in Florida. The U.S. Supreme Court led by Scalia and Sandra Day O'Connor chose in favor of Bush in violation of the U.S. Constitution and Gore did nothing. Gore did get a nice payday reward from Google's owners but democracy took a hit from which it has not recovered. Bush chose Supreme Court justices and even when Obama was in office and should have selected a justice, he cowardly let the Mitch McConnell tell him he was not going to be able to do so. Obama had many options as the President of the USA but he rolled over without so much as a whimper. We have the same situation today with Biden's agenda being stopped by the Republicans and neoliberal members of the Democratic Party who do not want tax reform or money that will benefit all Americans and in particular workers and their families.
“We can have huge wealth in the hands of a relatively few people or we can have a democracy. But we can’t have both.” Supreme Court judge Louis Brandeis
We no longer have anything resembling a democracy in this country. If I was graduating from college today I would be researching which country to emigrate to and leave the USA behind. The situation is not salvageable.