If you don’t like your president, elect someone else. If you don’t like the presented options, pressure whatever party you think fits into providing better options.
Unfortunately, what many outside the US don’t comprehend, is that this means waiting 3 more years. The last elections a couple of days ago already showed some change, next year’s will have more of an impact, but unlike parliamentary governments with votes of no confidence and automatic elections when a budget fails to get approved, the US is all mucking around on a beta version of Democracy and shorted out the check-and-balance circuit breaker so it no longer functions. Best to keep up the strength, but just the same exhausting.
There is no magic button to remove the President as long as Congress/DoJ is useless, and removing Congress is outside the power of regular citizens as well. Only Congress can impeach Supreme Court Justices, so there’s a no go there either. Turns out running a country for almost 250 years on a gentleman’s agreement was a bad idea, who knew?
The US is 9.8 million square kilometers in size too, so it isn’t like everyone can just overwhelm the White House and expect change. Worse, it isn’t even the size. It’s the survival. Healthcare and medication is coupled to employment, employment is coupled to showing up to work, many jobs have no concept of time off, and the ones that do often require months in advance notice. Lose your job, lose your healthcare, lose your mortgage, lose your car loan, become homeless and/or die. It is basically that simple for most Americans as the oligarchs in charge have run the population down to a paper-thin existence.
You can tell how bad it has become reading all the news reports about how many Americans are now buying groceries using buy now pay later or credit cards. Groceries are food. Basic survival stuff. On credit.
Of course, the path the US is on terminates in another (probably global) economic collapse, suffered worst in the US, so at that point it won’t much matter.
Many would prefer it doesn’t go down that route, however, or a 2A civil war, or the many other violent ways it could play out.
So one waits, and one hopes, while being extremely frustrated.
Unfortunately, what many outside the US don’t comprehend, is that this means waiting 3 more years. The last elections a couple of days ago already showed some change, next year’s will have more of an impact, but unlike parliamentary governments with votes of no confidence and automatic elections when a budget fails to get approved, the US is all mucking around on a beta version of Democracy and shorted out the check-and-balance circuit breaker so it no longer functions. Best to keep up the strength, but just the same exhausting.
There is no magic button to remove the President as long as Congress/DoJ is useless, and removing Congress is outside the power of regular citizens as well. Only Congress can impeach Supreme Court Justices, so there’s a no go there either. Turns out running a country for almost 250 years on a gentleman’s agreement was a bad idea, who knew?
The US is 9.8 million square kilometers in size too, so it isn’t like everyone can just overwhelm the White House and expect change. Worse, it isn’t even the size. It’s the survival. Healthcare and medication is coupled to employment, employment is coupled to showing up to work, many jobs have no concept of time off, and the ones that do often require months in advance notice. Lose your job, lose your healthcare, lose your mortgage, lose your car loan, become homeless and/or die. It is basically that simple for most Americans as the oligarchs in charge have run the population down to a paper-thin existence.
You can tell how bad it has become reading all the news reports about how many Americans are now buying groceries using buy now pay later or credit cards. Groceries are food. Basic survival stuff. On credit.
Of course, the path the US is on terminates in another (probably global) economic collapse, suffered worst in the US, so at that point it won’t much matter.
Many would prefer it doesn’t go down that route, however, or a 2A civil war, or the many other violent ways it could play out.
So one waits, and one hopes, while being extremely frustrated.
It won’t happen automatically. Somebody has to talk and listen to Trump’s voters and convince them to vote for somebody else. That takes time.
That is, people also need to be prepared if there is no election.
Beta version of democracy explains it pretty well
“Don’t mourn, organize!”