• KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    18 hours ago

    Pretty sure America is the most obvious place this would be referencing.

    It has to be a FPTP country, and it has to be a country with so few possible parties that the choices are bad or worse. Not to mention it has to be a country with free and fair elections.

    How many countries fit that bill?

    • Uriel238 [all pronouns]@lemmy.blahaj.zoneOP
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      17 hours ago

      Elections in the US are far removed from free and fair, especially now we’re past Louisiana v. Callais and SCOTUS can and will veto any efforts by Congress to reform them.

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        13 hours ago

        SCoTUS has neither a military nor a law enforcement arm. With enough political will there is nothing they can do to stop court reform.

        • Uriel238 [all pronouns]@lemmy.blahaj.zoneOP
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          2 hours ago

          Ellie Mystal pointed out that was a risk of civil war: If congress were to strip SCOTUS of jurisdiction (no longer decides what is Constitutional or not) and the court then responds by saying that law is unconstitutional, the blue states side with Congress while the red states side with the Court, and we have a crisis that cannot be resolved by institutional procedure.

          Personally, I’d like to see more of They’ve made their ruling, now let them enforce it. But as we recently saw with the Virginia redistricting referendum, their governor obeyed in advance.