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    Buttigieg hat Recht: Demokraten müssen die Regierung nach Trump neu erfinden

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    2. muchnycrunchny on

      Our system of governance is broken and prone to such abuse again if not fixed.

      Our Republic is old and would benefit from an update. But I’m concerned that any new form of constitution would be twisted and warped by either party into something far more nefarious.

    3. a_o on

      Seems like corporate megadonors are already on top of it but okay dude if you say so

    4. modooff on

      >“I think that Democrats have been slow to understand the changes in how people get their information, slow to understand some of the cultural changes that have been happening, and maybe most problematic of all, too attached to a status quo that has been failing us for a long time,“ Buttigieg said in a *Morning Edition* interview in New York City.

      Excerpt: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbWQByVqq-Q

      Full interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HaIP0BvF1TU

    5. JimmyRamone17_ on

      Assuming we have a government after Trump.

      He might have a mental equivalent of the Israeli Samson Option where he just fucking decides to start dropping nukes if he feels like he’s about to go down.

    6. Polemic-Personified on

      You had four years to do that. You chose to do nothing except pat each other on the back.

      No one believes there is any interest in doing anything other than revitalizing donor confidence.

    7. LockheedMartinLuther on

      >He talks about embracing change. “It is wrong to burn down the Department of Education, but I actually think it’s also wrong to suppose that the Department of Education was just right in 2024,” he said.

      >“You could say the same thing about USAID. It is unconscionable that children were left to die by the abrupt destruction of USAID. Unconscionable. But it’s also wrong to suppose that if Democrats come back to power, our project should be to just tape the pieces together just the way that they were.”

    9. JoplinSC742 on

      In 2016, Democrats could be divided into three camps.

      1. The institutions are fine, it’s just the people running them.

      2. The institutions are flawed, and need reform.

      3. The institutions are broken and need to be replaced.

      By destroying the institutions Democrats once defended, Trump has inadvertently created a situation where there is nothing left to defend or reform, only rebuild or replace. There is no going back.

    10. JackLaytonsMoustache on

      *Start with recognizing corporations aren’t people and go from there*

    11. Scarlettail on

      It doesn’t sound like he’s calling for a particularly radical reinvention. His language comes off to me as moderate still. I’m waiting for someone to call for actual accountability and structural reform to protect democracy. Sure, we can’t rebuild USAID as we did before, but we kind of have bigger issues to address like the unleashing of a secret police state and the gradual erasure of our rights.

    14. JordySkateboardy808 on

      Can we just reinvent it to look like Finland already? Will save on lots of trial and error.

    15. BigRami on

      Let me know if I’m wrong on this, but it’s a difficult position to be pro-institutions and pro-establishment like the democrats want but also message as the ‚change agent‘. Not saying its impossible but definitely ‚threading the needle‘.

    17. Numerous_Resource896 on

      Not gonna happen.. they’ll pardon all the current crooks and proceed to lose the next election

    18. Significant-Self5907 on

      No, Democrats need to go back to supporting unions & ditch the corporate donors!!

    19. HandsomePistachio on

      Our checks and balances need a revision. Turns out they don’t actually protect us from autocracy when the people who are supposed to do the checking are in on it. At the very least, don’t make the fucking DOJ a politically appointed position.

    20. gorobotkillkill on

      Better push far left when you do it, otherwise, what’s the difference?

      There is no difference, because it won’t happen. 

    21. yourrealfather696969 on

      This is a platitude. It’ll be more neoliberalism with some woke politics. The ptb have chosen to give us social issues rather than wage/economic issues because those issues would cost them money.

    22. AbacusWizard on

      We absolutely need to avoid the trap of “can we just go back to the way things were before Trump,” because the way things were before Trump were exactly the situation that gave rise to Trump.

    23. cybermort on

      I will never ever trust someone who willingly went to work for McKinsey. Fuck that guy, this is the kind of people that made the democratic party what it is today.

    24. Agnos on

      Minimum wage is still at $7.25, that is $15,000 a year, working full time, before taxes…

    26. velvet_funtime on

      I’m sure they’ll get right on it. Remember how they had decades to codify Roe v. Wade?

    27. Rich-Efficiency3394 on

      You know why I’m not a Democrat?

      Because Democrats are **fucking useless.**

      A key example of this was the four years we had with Biden. We had four years where we could have actually purged the government of all the bad actors, the criminals, the foreign agents, and the feckless amoral politicians who do nothing but hold America back and hurt Americans.

      And what did Democrats do?

      „Oh we need bipartisanship!“

      They tried to find middle ground with people who have Nazis openly running in their party. The same people who fucked Obama out of over 300 court appointments. The same people who fucked Obama out of a Supreme Court nomination and then turned around and violated the rule that they made to push their guy through.

      Democrats are fucking useless and cannot be counted upon to do a goddamn thing except snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.

    28. giabollc on

      A constitutional amendment concerning Citizens United would be a start. Wonder how many politicians on either side would vote to have their gravy train cut off

    29. SnootSnootBasilisk on

      I’m a Democrat and my party doesn’t even have the resolve to stand up for the marginalized and oppressed, much less reinvent the government

    30. NeverLookBothWays on

      Poor choice of words in that it’s too vague. Democrats need to legislate the ever living fuck out of government to plug all of the loopholes and gaps Republicans took it upon themselves to exploit. No more reliance on tradition and good faith….government needs an anti-cheat engine.

      It also needs complete reform of enforcement. Branches need enforcement capabilities outside the executive. All of law enforcement needs to be completely purged of fascists and fascist sympathizers. Constitution comes first, justice comes first. No government should bend to a tyrant.

    33. JCPLee on

      The system is broken. Anything goes now. We are in banana republic territory, where norms of governance no longer apply. Every change in government will result in significant upheaval in every government institution. We are so screwed!! Hope all the “Biden is too old” crowd is happy.

    34. stackered on

      1. Kill Citizens United
      2. Bring back Fairness Doctrine
      3. Get rid of lobbying and super PACs
      4. 4 year term limits for congress

      To start

    35. Vapur9 on

      >“But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.“

      Duty. New safeguards.

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