• Darrell_Winfield@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    In addition, this article is about his “plans” to do this. Not about his actions. Every election cycle around this time the incumbent president puts out articles about his (because there’s been no her yet) “plans” to reclassify or otherwise loosen marijuana restrictions, but nothing ever happens.

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      6 months ago

      Yep and then you’ll get a bunch of people arguing “well the president doesn’t really have much power to change things” in response to the criticism before immediately flipping to “well if [my candidate] doesn’t win the next election, fire and brimstone will rain down from the sky and it will be hell on earth because the other guy will have limitless power!”

      This is an argument coined by fascists that is now being used by party loyalists in both the Republican and Democratic parties because they want to maintain the status quo. This is what happens when you keep voting for one of two right-wing parties.