Explanation: Many European countries, including Ukraine, which is currently struggling against an imperialist incursion by Russia, have laws on the books which restrict or restrain elections during wars which violate the territorial integrity of the polity - ie, that holding elections while being bombed is impractical, and holding elections in occupied territory is impossible.
The US, being a vast country even at its youngest point, founded in an era before motorized armies and aerial bombing, and insanely attached to the one document that lays out the processes of our government (because if we weren’t, we’d immediately start killing each other over what it should be instead), has no such laws. During the US Civil War, we just ignored the South during the 1864 election. Doing so resulted in the most radical and forward-thinking (relative to contemporary society) Congress in US history, and a resounding re-election victory for President Abraham Lincoln.
… we gave the South their fucking voting rights back too soon.
Sherman should have done more.
Also traitors should have been treated as the treasonous scum they were.
Reconstruction ended too early.
As it just so happens, however, the current cunt in office is trying to cancel the midterms and 2028 elections under a manufactured crisis.
So we’ll see how long we have that moral high ground.
I mean, the arguments put forth for not having elections during wartime is sound. It’s not so much a moral high ground as an amusing piece of trivia.
But yes, the current shitwit’s enthusiasm for locking us under the fascist regime is… notable.
As a southerner, I approve this message.
“And besides, according to all known laws of aviation…”
Lol I love when the bee movie script shows up in unexpected places
Quite the stretch. There really isn’t any comparison to be done between a war of foreign aggression and a civil war in this context. Also didn’t the US allow a third time for Roosevelt during WWII for much the same reasons?
Quite the stretch. There really isn’t any comparison to be done between a war of foreign aggression and a civil war in this context.
As I said elsewhere, the effect of denying the centralized government the ability to offer elections in occupied territory is the same.
Also didn’t the US allow a third time for Roosevelt during WWII for much the same reasons?
There was no law at the time limiting the number of terms presidents could win.
What occurs to me is that a state of emergency will be called only in the blue states and the 2028 election will somehow only be held in the red states. Insane but… so is everything else that has happened.
Oooooooh… Noooooow I see it.
