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Re:DOJ Argues: US can kill own citizens without review when ... by AnthonyMouse on Saturday January 02, 2021 @10:02PM (#25618960)
It's a structural failure. Whoever is currently in power only violates the human rights of the people they don't care about, and the party out of power at a given time may care about them but isn't contemporaneously in power to stop it.

The next time they play musical chairs the people being violated may change but the incentives don't.

You might imagine someone having the forethought to consider that someone else might be in power at some future point and put mechanisms in place to constrain their abuses. Modern politicians appear resistant to this logic.

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Re:DOJ Argues: US can kill own citizens without review when ... by h0l0cube on Sunday January 03, 2021 @12:40AM (#25619791)
The upholding and expansion of human rights becomes a serious part of any policy platform if voters make it a priority for whom they choose as their elected officials. In this space I would argue there is room for independents to steal votes from incumbents. As long as everyone sticks to red and blue teams, there's no way to fight entrenched conflicts of interest.
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