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America,failing state.
Failed state.
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To be fair, England still has royals who are worshiped as such and whose vast fortunes weren’t disassembled and redistributed as they should’ve been.
And to be doubly fair, not only do idiot Brits worship them, but idiot Amurikans do too.
actually, a failed state.
What’s “England” (by which I presume you mean Great Britain) got to do with it?
John Oliver is American.
I find it bad either way. Being elected is bad, but being chosen by a bent rightwing nutjob as governor is also a problem. What other ways are judges chosen? Do legislatures chose? In MI we elect our judges and yeah, that sucks too.
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You mean we are on a par with Somalia, Syria, Yemen, and Nigeria simply because we elect judges?
Here in Arizona we elect judges but there is no indication as to party preference. The ballot says “should Judge Smith be retained?” And then you choose yes or no. Therefore it is incumbent on the voter to do their homework on Judges I would think.
no, because the institutions and elected officials we look to for governance/implementation of policies are largely corrupt/dysfunctional. the crimes of the 1% are ignored. a bloated military that only demands more and more of the country’s pie. efforts to make voting even more unpleasant are succeeding – voter suppression, gerrymandering, long lines/broken equipment, votes uncounted… so good luck trying to engage a citizenry who can’t be bothered.
Just a reminder. In their dissents in Caperton v. Massey, the predecessor to Citizens United, Clarence Thomas, who has a history of “forgetting” year after year to report how much his wife takes in from business as a bagwoman, Antonin Scalia, whose reputation for integrity is notorious, Samuel Alito, and the Chief Injustice of the United States agreed that there is nothing wrong with the CEO of a company appealing a $50 million judgement giving $3 million to the Chief Justice of the state supreme court hearing the appeal as long as it’s laundered properly.
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Why is it so hard for all of us loyal Americans to acknowledge that our system of government is based entirely upon money? Whom ever gives the most money to a politician, whether he/she is a judge, a councilman, a senator, or a president, owns that politician, and can be sure that his interests will always come first. Our system was designed to operate that way from the get-go. Why else would the framers of the Constitution have insisted that senators be appointed by the state governments, not elected by the state voters? And, why else give a senator representing 500,000 citizens the same voting weight as one representing 10,000,000 citizens? And, why else is the Constitution silent about the rights of corporations and money?
but they have no political power. other than that, it’s just as bad.
Keep judges elected and accountable to people. . I’m facing the rest of my life hearing the phrase “chief justice John Roberts”, and it’s painful. And we know the potential effects of political legal appointments after Chimpy Bush tried to stack the US Attorney’s offices everywhere - they weren’t even judges.
That Newby commercial makes me so proud to live in NC…and hell no I didn’t vote for him.