With all the purges etc now...aren't there going to be even more the next time democrats win the presidential election?

I mean there would have to be some kind of huge purge right?

8/8/2025 12:43:41 AM

we are merely touching upon the tip of the purge glacier.

8/8/2025 11:12:45 AM

I’m just hoping for a sane candidate who rolls back all of the stupid stuff, keeps anything worthwhile, and just generally tries to get the US back to 2020 America with a better economic structure.

8/8/2025 11:49:08 AM

^^geez, how many more ppl can they remove!?!?

8/8/2025 4:07:06 PM

^^covid america? bruh....

8/12/2025 8:19:07 PM

^^^you make it sound simple but "rolling back all the stupid stuff" will take massive political capital and likely require massive changes to our system. I don't know how you can do forward without removing scotus justices and putting lots of people in jail. There needs to be consequences to help avoid something like this happening again. Cannot repeat the bipartisan hand holding of a merrick garland, say.

8/12/2025 10:26:20 PM

A helpful start would be Congress actually playing their role as an independent legislative body.

8/12/2025 10:44:55 PM

Congress will also need major reforms, no clue what. Reducing the power of the senate and/or making both the house and senate more representative would be a start.

8/12/2025 10:47:50 PM

I was actually thinking about this today. There will be an immense amount of work to do to fix the things that have been and will be broken. I don't think it will be done in years. I think it will be decades.

I also think that there will need to be structural reforms to guard against a future President being able to do this sort of damage. What things specifically, I'm not sure.

...which leads to the main conclusion I came to--I don't know if you can really effectively, thoroughly guard against this other than by not electing people like this to begin with. It's ultimately primarily a problem with us, our society--not simply a problem with our politicians or governmental structures and regulations.

8/13/2025 12:44:27 AM

Eliminating a first-past-the-post system at all levels of government and including in primaries, and requiring that the eventual winner receive a true majority of votes cast (50% + 1 vote) would seemingly be helpful in tamping down the possibility for extreme outcomes.

8/13/2025 6:39:29 AM