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ABC News’s senior congressional correspondent Rachel Scott has reportedly faced threats to her life after her piercing interview of Donald Trump at the National Association of Black Journalists convention left the former president fuming.
The NABJ’s executive director told members at a meeting on Saturday that “Scott had received death threats following her work asking incisive questions of … Trump at the group’s national convention” three days earlier, Eric Deggans of National Public Radio wrote in an X post published Saturday.
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Scott asked Trump on Wednesday, “Why should Black voters trust you?” given his history of inflammatory comments about Black people. Among other questions, she also quizzed him about whether he believed Vice-President Kamala Harris had risen to the top of the Democratic ticket for November’s White House election solely “because she is a Black woman”.
Political parties should be abolished. Imagine how much more attention you would have yo pay if you had to understand who to vote for. Plus then it would allow people like your local mail carrier to run for things like school committee.
How?
Bring back the old literacy tests while you’re at it.
They aren’t? If yes how would that change?
Good question. I said should, not could… it would take a constitutional change, which is currently impossible. I used to think a lot about this, and there just is no law that wouldn’t get stricken down if passed.
Pfft. The two are not the same. You could be perfectly illiterate and still find out what the supposed values of the politicians were by simply listening to them, or just talking to others about policy and politicians ties to them, like we used to.
The Hatch Act applies to all career federal civil servants and prevents anyone under that designation from running from office in any partisan race. Meaning if your local government doesn’t allow political affiliations to be listed, then you can run for dog catcher or school committee or whatever. Non-partisan local elections used to be the norm, now they are exceptionally rare. Forcing every election to be non-partisan opens up a bunch of likely trustworthy people to be able participate in politics through running for offices.
thank you my point exactly
case in point is the mail why wouldn’t a mail carrier be votable to congress or senate or president or any government position
not only would the expertise come in to play but people would finally see something like participating in government a reality like running for offices for themselves or just voting
would break the traditional rule of the US and shatter the elites’ power