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    16 hours ago

    The checks and balances are working mostly as intended. The purpose of the system is:

    1. Protect the oligarchy from external threats, should any anti-oligarch politician slip by all the various election disenfranchisement techniques,
    2. Moderate any conflicts between factions of the oligarchy to stabilize the dictatorship of the capital.

    As far as I can tell,

    1. Billionaires are making more billions every day while the rest struggle to get by,
    2. Almost all dem politicians and their wealthy neoliberal donors are doing alright despite a literal fascist party being in power.

    Besides, even when someone like Mamdani gets elected, they can’t effect any meaningful change because they are “checked” by the pro-capitalist legislature and “balanced” by the corrupt judiciary.

    It doesn’t need a reboot, it needs a complete realignment of who’s in charge.