- cross-posted to:
- politics@lemmy.world
- cross-posted to:
- politics@lemmy.world
ABC News’s senior congressional correspondent Rachel Scott has reportedly faced threats to her life after her piercing interview of Donald Trump at the National Association of Black Journalists convention left the former president fuming.
The NABJ’s executive director told members at a meeting on Saturday that “Scott had received death threats following her work asking incisive questions of … Trump at the group’s national convention” three days earlier, Eric Deggans of National Public Radio wrote in an X post published Saturday.
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Scott asked Trump on Wednesday, “Why should Black voters trust you?” given his history of inflammatory comments about Black people. Among other questions, she also quizzed him about whether he believed Vice-President Kamala Harris had risen to the top of the Democratic ticket for November’s White House election solely “because she is a Black woman”.
US politics is toxic because it is divisive
two parties have hijacked our elections and created football politics that pit one side against the other
should be different voices with multiple different representators in government just like the voters if all were allowed to vote
THaeYRe baSICALLLY ThE SA aME!
just because the two parties have different vehicles their destination for the people is the same
That is 100% untrue, considering one party’s destination is fascism.
what do you call it when both parties are for locking up kids at the border just for one example
or what do call it when both parties support over funding the police without more regulations and oversight
there are numerous examples
Reductive.
What do you call it when one (1) of the two (2) parties is explicitly in favor of installing a fascist theocratic dictator and the other one isn’t
Lack of nuance
Political parties should be abolished. Imagine how much more attention you would have yo pay if you had to understand who to vote for. Plus then it would allow people like your local mail carrier to run for things like school committee.
How?
Bring back the old literacy tests while you’re at it.
They aren’t? If yes how would that change?
Good question. I said should, not could… it would take a constitutional change, which is currently impossible. I used to think a lot about this, and there just is no law that wouldn’t get stricken down if passed.
Pfft. The two are not the same. You could be perfectly illiterate and still find out what the supposed values of the politicians were by simply listening to them, or just talking to others about policy and politicians ties to them, like we used to.
The Hatch Act applies to all career federal civil servants and prevents anyone under that designation from running from office in any partisan race. Meaning if your local government doesn’t allow political affiliations to be listed, then you can run for dog catcher or school committee or whatever. Non-partisan local elections used to be the norm, now they are exceptionally rare. Forcing every election to be non-partisan opens up a bunch of likely trustworthy people to be able participate in politics through running for offices.
I mean: if you had the power, how would you ban parties? At what point do political organizations become parties? How about individual representatives working together?
Yes literacy is not the deciding factor, but it was always a pretense to keep certain people from voting.
How much time should a person spend following politics to get enough of an understanding? What about poor people working long hours with little free time?
Guess I should have gone with the landowning requirement instead.
Sound like a problem with the Hatch Act, not with political parties. Over here civil servant can run in political races as long they separate their work and political live, they are not allowed to wear uniforms at political events for example.
thank you my point exactly
case in point is the mail why wouldn’t a mail carrier be votable to congress or senate or president or any government position
not only would the expertise come in to play but people would finally see something like participating in government a reality like running for offices for themselves or just voting
would break the traditional rule of the US and shatter the elites’ power
I agree with all of this. I am not sure why people are downvoting you.