>With that we can determine who above them is elected
"This country is for people like me, I want people not like me punished severely" is very much a mainstream opinion in the US. This is how people win elections, not lose them.
I think you have a lot of faith in democratic processes at this point, despite widespread evidence such as this very article that they are being clearly undermined.
Yes, if people actually had faith in democratic processes, they would have standards for the people they elect, and be involved in civics and actvism. Corruption is endemic precisely because people don't care.
Or more accurately, because the only people who do care are the people who benefit from corruption.
We would benefit from more civic engagement, but let’s not mischaracterize the situation. Those with more money really do have more power, which they use to buy more influence directly through legalized bribery or indirectly through media control. A choice between two candidates is like that between Coke and Pepsi, one a bit sweeter than the other but both manufactured by the ownership class. Consider the Gaza genocide, corporate handouts, mass surveillance - it is a long list of what politicians support contrary to popular will. The solution is indeed more civic engagement - not simply being satisfied with voting in a rigged system and going home but engaging in other forms of popular power like labor organizing as well. It’s our economy they rely on and we have real power to shut it down through solidarity and mass strikes. What we need to up our game, especially in this time as our democratic institutions are being completely unraveled.
> "numerous…teachers, parents and students" somehow interpreted Bushart's meme—with its citation in fine print about a previous school shooting at Perry High School in Perry, Iowa—as a threat to carry out a similar shooting at nearby Perry County High School.
Wouldn’t matter. Those elected would likely be re elected. This wasn’t Trump advising some federal agency to bully someone he doesn’t like. It was the community organizing. This is the will of the people.
> Wouldn’t matter. Those elected would likely be re elected
This is just rationalising laziness and nihilism. They may get re-elected. That doesn't mean you can't create a lot of chaos and cost for them along the way.
Like, I wish my adversaries would preëmptively conclude that even attempting to oppose me is not worth it.
You are 100% correct. Just recently a single website that linked some e-mail addresses destroyed the EU Plans for chat control. Apathy and Cynicism would've led it happen but just the act of making one website and posting it at the right places, something everyone here could easily do, changed the course of law dramatically.
Do we have names of the arresting officers, prosecutors and judge this is in front of?
With that we can determine who above them is elected.