• Coelacanth@feddit.nu
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    48
    arrow-down
    1
    ·
    3 months ago

    The US is bizarro world in so many aspects. Political Supreme Court appointees that are appointed for life (!), two party system, the electoral college, the absurdly long election cycles…

    • wieson@feddit.org
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      32
      arrow-down
      1
      ·
      3 months ago

      The fact that the first lady does speeches and the presidents family is in the spotlight at all. (Rather dynastic for a democracy)

      • Asafum@feddit.nl
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        4
        ·
        3 months ago

        Come on now we can’t have the poors voting now can we??

        How are we supposed to keep our stranglehold on wealth the country if we allowed the poors to have their say!?

    • bleistift2@sopuli.xyz
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      1
      arrow-down
      7
      ·
      3 months ago

      Political Supreme Court appointees that are appointed for life (!),

      Judges are appointed for life, so they can be impartial and don’t need to worry about who won’t hire them after their term ends if they made unfavorable decisions.

      the absurdly long election cycles…

      4 years is absurdly long to you? Getting things done in politics takes time. How long should the cycle be in your opinion?

      • lemonmelon@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        10
        ·
        3 months ago

        The “political” before “Supreme Court apointees” implies a lack of impartiality.

        “Election cycle” and “term of office” aren’t synonymous.

      • Coelacanth@feddit.nu
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        6
        ·
        3 months ago

        Judges are appointed for life, so they can be impartial and don’t need to worry about who won’t hire them after their term ends if they made unfavorable decisions.

        Brother I’m not talking about letting the new president fire them at will, I’m talking about term limits and retirement ages.

        4 years is absurdly long to you?

        This one is maybe on me since my word choice was possibly ambiguous, but I was referring to the campaign cycle - not the length of the term.

        • bleistift2@sopuli.xyz
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          1
          arrow-down
          1
          ·
          3 months ago

          Ok, then we agree on all points except term limits for judges. Forced retirement is fine by me, but yanking them out of office before they retire has the drawback I mentioned before.

      • CapeWearingAeroplane@sopuli.xyz
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        1
        ·
        3 months ago

        The US supreme court judges are appointed by politicians: They are political appointees. In a lot of other countries supreme court judges are selected by a non-political committee, like every other non-political appointee.

        • bleistift2@sopuli.xyz
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          1
          ·
          3 months ago

          In a lot of other countries supreme court judges are selected by a non-political committee

          My worldwide knowledge of this is limited. In Germany, each of the two ‘houses’ of parliament (Bundestag and Bundesrat) elect one half of the ‘Supreme Court’’s (Bundesverfassungsgericht) members (judges and other staff).

          Article 94 of the constitution. (Translated)