Alyson and Breht discuss the recent rulings by the Supreme Court, a wildly anti-democratic, thoroughly corrupt, and staunchly reactionary institution that the American right has spent years and billions of dollars capturing in order to impose its minoritarian rule on an American majority that firmly rejects what they stand for. And they do it all without having to worry for even a second about pesky things getting in their way: like democracy, human rights, or basic accountability to the American people.

SCOTUS’ Assault on the American People

  • freagle
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    1 year ago

    The Senate is also a minoritarian institution by design. The entire US government is a minoritarian structure in practice and has been since its founding

    • signofzeta
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      I think the founding fathers assumed that enough minority-rule structures would cancel each other out. Oh well.