US President Donald Trump's administration is revising past editions of the nation's premier climate report -- its latest move to undermine the scientific consensus on human-caused global warming.
Some of the largest nationwide protests we’ve ever had have been during Trump II. But the distances are incredibly vast.
The continental US is just over 4,500km wide, excluding Alaska and Hawaii, which are massive as well. While DC is populated, our country is large enough that it would take a six or seven hour flight to get there if you aren’t in a hub city.
If you are, it’s still over 5 hours of flying from L.A. to DC.
Driving from San Francisco, CA, to WA DC takes 41 hours, when at highway speeds. And that’s without fuel, rest, or food. People are super spread out in a way Europe is not.
The real pain is people not voting. Voting could have saved everyone loads of trouble.
Glad to see someone mentioning this. I see a disturbing number of people on here saying nothing is happening and it’s not true at all. Many, many people are angry, doing things, and more are getting involved with each new horrible thing that happens. It takes time for movements to reach critical mass. Especially in a country this big as you point out.
It’s also critical to understand that he isn’t supposed to have the ability to do all these things. He’s ignoring law and due process completely at this point, but his party controls all three pillars of government and no one is stopping him at the governmental level.
To be honest, though, the main thing the past decade has revealed is that our government’s supposedly robust set of checks and balances collapse completely as soon as people just stop being honorable and following the rules voluntarily. It’s a paper thin system it turns out.
I don’t know of any system that will hold up if all the people in power just decide to ignore it. What we lack is a robust way to ensure that no one group holds all the power at any given time.
Some of the largest nationwide protests we’ve ever had have been during Trump II. But the distances are incredibly vast.
The continental US is just over 4,500km wide, excluding Alaska and Hawaii, which are massive as well. While DC is populated, our country is large enough that it would take a six or seven hour flight to get there if you aren’t in a hub city.
If you are, it’s still over 5 hours of flying from L.A. to DC.
Driving from San Francisco, CA, to WA DC takes 41 hours, when at highway speeds. And that’s without fuel, rest, or food. People are super spread out in a way Europe is not.
The real pain is people not voting. Voting could have saved everyone loads of trouble.
Glad to see someone mentioning this. I see a disturbing number of people on here saying nothing is happening and it’s not true at all. Many, many people are angry, doing things, and more are getting involved with each new horrible thing that happens. It takes time for movements to reach critical mass. Especially in a country this big as you point out.
It’s also critical to understand that he isn’t supposed to have the ability to do all these things. He’s ignoring law and due process completely at this point, but his party controls all three pillars of government and no one is stopping him at the governmental level.
To be honest, though, the main thing the past decade has revealed is that our government’s supposedly robust set of checks and balances collapse completely as soon as people just stop being honorable and following the rules voluntarily. It’s a paper thin system it turns out.
I don’t know of any system that will hold up if all the people in power just decide to ignore it. What we lack is a robust way to ensure that no one group holds all the power at any given time.