It kinda seems like the US' democracy is completely worthless.
this post was submitted on 15 May 2025
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Each state has its own Constitution, legislature, executive branch, and judiciary.
Republicans aren't fit to govern.
Republicans aren't fit to ~~govern~~ breathe
Yeah, just like when the idiots in Missouri voted against Right to Work and elected Republicans to the state government and lo and behold, the newly minted Republicans attempted to pass Right to Work.
They are not smart people.
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Keep voting Republican, Missouri.
"We the people" folks must be ready to protest right?
Republicans do not want to represent. They want to rule.
Dems/liberals/progressives aren’t “people” to Republicans. They’re the outgroup, the “other”, effectively dehumanized.
Nazis don’t believe in voting.
Proof 1,056,344 that both sides, in fact are not the same.
Wait... You guys don't even have paid sick leave....?
We have to use PTO for normal sick days and file for short-term disability for illness that lasts weeks or a few months. And if you have a job without those benefits you get nothing.
The U.S. tied its Healthcare to employers to keep its citizens slaves to corporate America.
Its how wages have stayed so stagnant for 20 years.
cause people cant fight or leave, cause their healthcare depends on it.. especially if they have a very ill spouse/child
and they've taken so long to implement the 15 dollar minimum wage, that by the time its fully rolled out it will just be the new 7.25 with all the buying power it'll have with inflation and everything else, so nothing will fundamentally change for anyone.
And people get shamed for using it.
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People are acting like this is the first time republicans have willfully ignored the results of an election.
you can spell missouri without misery.
They just won't let you
Next election on the ballot.
Ballot measures by the people cannot be revoked / overturned / undone or in any way shape or form be contradicted, other than through a future ballot measure at the following election. ANY ATTEMPT TO DO SO BY AN ELECTED OFFICIAL IN ANY MANNER WHATSOEVER RESULTS IN THEIR IMMEDIATE DECAPITATION IN A PUBLIC SQUARE.
this is definitely LAMF
Missouri voted for a Republican government.
Missouri voters thought liberal views were going to be allowed?
Sort of. They changed the law to repeal the paid sick leave from Proposition A.
They couldn't force a change to the state constution that grants abortion rights. They did force a new amendment to go on the ballot to overturn the rights grated by Amendment 3.
The new amendment would remove the right to abortion with some exceptions not in the previous abortion restriction laws. It will be up to the voters.
Hopefully they don't pass the new restrictions but it could go either way.
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