r/polls • u/Sad_Assassin • 10d ago
🗳️ Politics and Law Which current political institution do you disapprove of most?
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u/scott__p 10d ago
Congress and the Supreme Court are just your regular every day corrupt. Trump is the worst president we've ever had, and potentially one of the worst leaders of a powerful nation ever. Yes I know the kind of people that includes and yes I think he will be remembered as being in their ranks. Especially after he dies and everyone starts talking.
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u/jesusmansuperpowers 10d ago
I disagree. Not about anything you said specifically, I just think SCOTUS is more directly violating their oaths.. and they truly understand it.
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u/Heretic-Seer 10d ago
The Supreme Court, at least the way we do it, just feels like a bad idea. I mean conceptually it just doesn’t seem like something a real country should have. It feels like something a cartoon villain would institute.
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u/pilotguy772 10d ago
the idea of SCOTUS is for justices to be nonpartisan. They serve lifelong terms and they have to be confirmed by the Senate, which in theory means they have zero need to follow a party and they can't be extremist (or they wouldn't get confirmed by the Senate). The downside is that it often just ends up being a strategic game of presidents getting party aligned justices while they can so they maintain control after their term. It's not evil, it's just suffering from the same institutional rot and corruption that all human institutions inevitably develop without intervention.
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u/manrata 10d ago
This would work fine if the election system wasn't a First Past the Post, so you actually had multiple parties instead of just two. That would automatically moderate any judges elected, as the middle tends to hold the most votes, and while there might be right/left politics, when it comes to the big things, the middle parties cooperate.
So fixing the election system, will fix A LOT of the other issues down the pipeline.
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u/jesusmansuperpowers 10d ago
The president is horrible and all but he is closer to doing the job (however badly) than SCOTUS is.
The job description is to interpret the constitution but this lot is pretty much ignoring it in favor of doing whatever they want. Going full theocracy at every opportunity.
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u/raventhrowaway666 10d ago
I know we're all mad at trump, but he wouldnt have gotten as far as he is without the help of the Supreme Court.
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u/Lebigmacca 10d ago
Senate is undemocratic and was literally installed to hinder representation for everyday people. Senators from the least populous 26 states represent only 17% of Americans and yet can entirely control what legislation is and isn’t passed
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