• Cethin@lemmy.zip
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    15 days ago

    As much as I hate it, it would be much worse if you could just accuse someone of a crime to keep them off the ballot. Someone like Trump would abuse it to accuse his opponents of crimes to have them removed. It needs to go through the court first. The issue is that’s taken far too long, and the time it takes has been increased by certain people with a bias.

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      15 days ago

      I agree that the problem is not with him being on the ballot, the problem is that it seems an enormous portion of the population of the USA are willing to vote for him.

      • pingveno@lemmy.world
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        15 days ago

        Yup, can’t get rid of someone like Trump if enough of the population is either willing or eager to go along with him.

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      15 days ago

      The issue is that’s taken far too long, and the time it takes has been increased by certain people with a bias.

      That was the basis of my second paragraph. This should’ve been priority #1 from the get go. And the fact that people with obvious bias has been able to derail the process is another problem that needs to be dealt with as well.

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        And the fact that people with obvious bias has been able to derail the process is another problem that needs to be dealt with as well.

        Heads need to roll for any real change ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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      14 days ago

      We need to criminalize government employees intentionally delaying or entirely ignoring doing their jobs