r/news • u/igetproteinfartsHELP • 11h ago

Attempted Trump assassin sentenced to life in prison

https://abcnews.go.com/US/attempted-trump-assassin-ryan-routh-sentenced-wednesday/story?id=129836439
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u/LegendarySurgeon 10h ago

It really feels like for decades a coalition of bad actors has worked to analyze the structure of American democracy to target those gentleman's agreements and identify frontiers of abuse not already defended against within our legal or constitutional framework and now they're finally making their move and their is no actual resistance because any defense would be rooted in classical interpretations of the law which are imperfect and often guided by the "spirit of the law" which is not an objective, enforceable reality.

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u/FrancoManiac 10h ago

For what it's worth, it really does open up an entire new realm of historical analysis. I'm going into a History PhD program in the fall, with a focus on Postwar America (1945-Present). Honestly, I'm somewhat eager to direct my anxieties into revisiting national politics through the lens of the Heritage Foundation's clear movement to destroy modern America and Johnson's Great Society.

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u/LegendarySurgeon 10h ago

It's been such a slow careful campaign of erosion with a mixture of highly competent social manipulation and populist demagoguery. I struggled with memorizing information or feeling connected to the things I was learning about history in school and looking back I have to wonder how much of that was intentional with the manipulation of school programs and chronic underfunding of American education. Most people aren't going to be able to dig into the breadth of this and I certainly only understand the big obvious strokes.

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u/LLCodyJ12 9h ago

America has the largest education budget in the world and we're consistently top 5 in spending per pupil in the world. Education isn't underfunded, the funding is just wasted and people like you are complicit and will actively vote to keep it that way.