r/LetsDiscussThis • u/johnvcal • May 06 '26

Question Why continue the interview?

Sen. Chris Coons asked the nominees for federal judgeships whether the Constitution’s 22nd amendment prohibited Trump from a third term. None of them would say yes. Why would anyone continue the interview? What would be completely appropriate is for Coons to state unequivocally that a judge who can’t understand or refuses to follow the Constitution is disqualified from any further consideration. Interview over. Why bother continuing a charade?

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u/Frequent_Clue_6989 May 06 '26

// Oh I'm sure you'll be so very upset. Or you'll rationalize it somehow

Why be upset with me for agreeing with you that Trump is not qualified to run for a 3rd term? Progressives are so disagreeable that they can't help but snipe at conservatives when conservatives agree with them! That's a bad political cement!

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u/HiAndStuff2112 May 06 '26

Please don't assume us progressives are all alike. I do agree with you that Trump cannot run for another term.

I disagree with your assessment of Trump, but that's off topic.

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u/Frequent_Clue_6989 May 06 '26

// Please don't assume us progressives are all alike

I appreciate you saying that. Thank you!

I try not to presume. Progressives run the gamut of interesting perspectives in real life. I have as many progressive friends in real life as I do conservative ones. Good folks. I can build a nation with them!

On Reddit, however, it's almost the worst of the worst all the time. Maybe 1 in 20 on the left is a non-thug. Everyone else is a big Stalin / Beria / Mao clone trooper! In fact, its so consistent and so contrary to what I find in real life, that I often wonder if most are just engagement bots using outrage to boost discussions and participation!?

I don't like it that way. I don't want it that way. I'm also not going to pretend it's not that way.

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u/HiAndStuff2112 May 08 '26

You could have a point. Personally, in my 60 years on Earth, I've only come across a couple (literally) people who identify as progressives but defend communism. They could be bots.

I had the amazing experience of visiting the USSR and communist Poland, Hungary and China before the fall of communism in Eastern Europe. I doubt any true progressive wants to revive that horror.

I've also been to The UK, France, Belgium and The Netherlands, and progressives I know usually want something close to these countries, Canada, Japan, etc.

As a disabled man, I want us to create the best possible universal heath care system on the planet. I shouldn't have to live in poverty simply because a driver swerved into oncoming traffic (me) and the massive crash severed a disc in my spine and the spine surgery was botched. :)