Oddbean

I didn't say the constitution in some sense doesn't make us difference, I'm saying it has no power to stop people from ignoring it and doing illegal things. And there really isn't a way to hold those people accountable for ignoring it when they do. Congress doesn't do anything. SCOTUS can only rule and not enforce. POTUS is where most of the offenses are happening. There are still people rotting in jail for Jan 6 who haven't been charged with crimes. The Constitution is meaningless if our beloved and sacred institutions refuse to recognize it and the people who care about it are too weak to confront them.

No. I'm mad that no one cares enough about the Constitution to stop the bureaucratic state from harassing US citizens. Congressional committees are there now to protect the BS instead of representing us.

I mean, one of the primary components of a former and possibly repeat president's message to voters has been the danger of the deep state. Something like half of the country is at least not opposed to this idea to such a degree that they'd vote against him for saying it and many support him because he does say it. Idk, maybe I'm not totally blackpilled, but the fact that we have the kind of opposition to this in America that frankly just doesn't exist in Europe, is primarily due to our robust free speech protections. And we have an economic system that offers a single person with a particular value set to straight up buy one of the most popular social media platforms just to prevent it from censoring people's speech. Granted, he isn't perfect about it, but it did happen. It happened in America.