• Rhaedas@fedia.io
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    2 months ago

    George Carlin said it, and it’s true. Rights don’t exist. We’ve gotten to the level where things that used to seem protected are now violated, and pointing to the laws that say they are rights doesn’t do anything. Once checks and balances disappeared, the ones in control could do whatever they want, especially when everyone else is still trying to use the rules that aren’t being acknowledged or enforced to “fight” back.

    • QuietCupcake [any, they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
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      2 months ago

      Once checks and balances disappeared

      “Checks and balances” were always a lie. Those so-called checks and balances may have played a real role in maintaining the status quo class hierarchical structures (helping ensure class cohesion among the bourgeoisie), but they never served as a genuine check on the power of those who have it in their rule over those who don’t. The ones in control could always do whatever they wanted, but liberal theatrics like “checks and balances” helped with the facade that protections for the people were in place where they never actually were. The only difference now is the mask is slipping. As the rates of profits fall, the imperial core is beginning to cannibalize itself so there’s less and less need or incentive to maintain that increasingly obvious false facade. The vast majority of regular people, the working class, only ever had one “check and balance” to use against the ruling class and that is noncompliance backed by a willingness for violence, more specifically the threat of revolution.