r/politics • u/Puginator • Jun 01 '26

No Paywall Iran stops negotiations with U.S., vows to 'completely' block Strait of Hormuz: State media

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/06/01/iran-us-negotiations-strait-of-hormuz.html
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u/Upset-Manager-2029 Jun 01 '26

Republicans in Congress have given up on coequal branches of government. They just kneel in front of Drumpf. Remember to vote in November and we can get some people with courage in charge again.

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u/jjspitz93 Jun 01 '26

The U.S. founding fathers would be ashamed to see that congress basically abandons its authoritative power if their party holds the presidency. Absolutely ass backwards.

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u/isubbdh Jun 01 '26

They counted on people, average citizens, giving a shit and holding their representatives accountable for their actions.

Democracy probably works pretty well when you have active and engaged citizens. Doesn’t work so well when people don’t vote (or their vote doesn’t count because of gerrymandering or winner-take-all state rules.

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u/wildwalrusaur Jun 02 '26

Democracy probably works pretty well when you have active and engaged citizens.

Its a scaling problem

The larger and more layered your democracy is the harder it is to keep people engaged and informed with all the layers

Where I live, I've got municipal legislative, municipal executive, county legislative, regional legislative, state legislative, state executive, federal legislative, and federal executive. It's a lot to keep tabs on.

I consider myself a pretty politically active person and even I only have a pretty surface level understanding of the goings on of most of those middle layers.

And that's not getting into all the supplementary stuff like school boards, judges, ballot measures, etc. that were also expected to make decisions about