The first way that Portugal was able to resist coups deflated me. Feeling like I converse with the radicals and the moderates on the left who both have causes of a lifetime that aren't aligned. The urgency of voting for the 'only person who would win against the GOP candidate' versus not voting for a Democratic Party that continues to support and prioritize empirical structures while giving lip-service to People (often with a 'who else are you gonna vote for, that guy?' attitude) leaves me agreeing with both, knowing they are paradoxical.
I am with you on that. And it’s also what historians have said about what kept hitler at bay (until they couldn’t stay aligned) and France after their February 6 insurrection in the 1920s. Which has me really sitting with that same paradox. Thanks for naming it.
The US Constitution is fine. It has mechanisms built-in to amend it. Trying to re-write it is just what the republicans and project 2025 adherents want.
I definitely hear you on that! It’s something I’ve been thinking about ever since I read a reflection on the difference between positive rights and negative rights, and how many democracies after the US wrote constitutions more oriented in positive rights, shaping their national cultures around the wellbeing of all people rather than just the need to be protected from each other (and from the government). Which is the exact thing the right is using to dismantle democracy. But what you say is true: they want to strip the rights that are currently protected in our existing constitution, however flawed and limited it may be. Thanks so much for naming that VERY real issue.
The first way that Portugal was able to resist coups deflated me. Feeling like I converse with the radicals and the moderates on the left who both have causes of a lifetime that aren't aligned. The urgency of voting for the 'only person who would win against the GOP candidate' versus not voting for a Democratic Party that continues to support and prioritize empirical structures while giving lip-service to People (often with a 'who else are you gonna vote for, that guy?' attitude) leaves me agreeing with both, knowing they are paradoxical.
I am with you on that. And it’s also what historians have said about what kept hitler at bay (until they couldn’t stay aligned) and France after their February 6 insurrection in the 1920s. Which has me really sitting with that same paradox. Thanks for naming it.
The US Constitution is fine. It has mechanisms built-in to amend it. Trying to re-write it is just what the republicans and project 2025 adherents want.
I definitely hear you on that! It’s something I’ve been thinking about ever since I read a reflection on the difference between positive rights and negative rights, and how many democracies after the US wrote constitutions more oriented in positive rights, shaping their national cultures around the wellbeing of all people rather than just the need to be protected from each other (and from the government). Which is the exact thing the right is using to dismantle democracy. But what you say is true: they want to strip the rights that are currently protected in our existing constitution, however flawed and limited it may be. Thanks so much for naming that VERY real issue.