• Scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech
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    3 months ago

    I remember being taught in school all of those, and the fact that justices not being elected or having term limits meant that they were 100% not swayed by anything other than justice. A very noble idea I respect, but we see obviously that anyone is corruptable. I see very few judges now who aren’t electable. They don’t run under a platform, they have agendas and it’s not perfect - but it’s better than our system where we’re stuck until they die - and then we’re at the mercy of whoever the flavor of the month is.

    • gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works
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      3 months ago

      Yeah… the older I’ve gotten, the more obvious it’s become that civics/social studies classes related to American government in high school were mostly just hilariously abstracted theoretical bullshit.