every single day I learn about more corruption in America and it disgusts me
Wait til you hear they actually elect some judges, prosecutors and police chiefs.
Interestingly, Mexico is celebrating a change in their constitution that let’s them elect judges.
I don’t think the problem in America is the fact these people are elected. I think the problem in America is Americans.
I don’t think there’s anything special about Americans that makes them worse or better than anyone else. I think our problem is that we’ve got a heavily corrupted political system with a right wing propaganda machine that distorts a lot of people’s worldview and lawmakers who almost always find a way to just ignore their voters whenever they do manage to push for something progressive.
I’m a little wary of electing judges, but on the other hand I don’t think voters can do any worse than our unelected bar associations and law enforcement lobbying has done in creating a judiciary that actually cares about justice, so I’d be open to electing more of our judges.
Electing judges is better than appointing judges every day of the week.
Elected officials appointing judges to serve a term with a limit on the number of terms seems the best option imo.
I prefer the independent judiciary appointing judges based on legal ability myself, and keeping elected officials well away from it.
That’s creating a body of government not controlled by the people at all. I don’t like that.
If there was a recall process then maybe
Louisiana, Alabama, Mississippi. These are states that would cause my suicide if I had to live there. Florida gets an honorable mention here.
https://web.archive.org/web/20140201064722/http://fuckthesouth.com/
I would hope that you’d try moving to a different state first…
I live in the Bay Area, CA. I’m already in the best part of this country (for me). It’s attached to a bunch of red states with stupid people who vote against our interests. 2020 taught me how shitty my fellow citizens can be. I wanted to get the fuck out and would have, were it not for my partner (we met at the end of 2021).
I meant if you found yourself in one of the previously listed states…
Sounds like the kind of corruption MAGAts enjoy.
Cruelty AND compensation for it? They live for that shit.