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Probably the allegations she had an affair with Trump aide Corey Lewandowski. As we all know, family values is when you cheat on your husband.

Congress is hopelessly broken, gridlocked and unable to pass policy on its own merit. That's how we end up with quadrillion page omnibus bills every year. It's a failed institution, and it's been this way since at least Reagan.

That's very true. It's less that it can happen, and more that it's happening with virtually every trade agreement at once, along with dozens of diplomatic norms.

That said, the authority of the executive is undeniably stronger today than back then. Congress has acquiesed its authority and powers on virtually every issue imaginable and it alternates between being too complicit and too incompetent to change that (and too gridlocked to achieve meaningful policy anyway).

There are too many metastisizing issues to count at this point.

It could take decades longer than even that. America has experienced mind-boggling collapse in just 4 months. The damage to its reputation will take an entire restructuring of the powers of the executive branch to overcome. I mean, who wants to make a deal with an admin, when every 4 years it can go back on its word?

We still have at least 43 more months to look forward to. The bottom hasn't even begun to drop.

Is it more underreported than the notoriously underreported abuse in schools?

For real, we are on a post where an abusive career teacher got a 'teacher of the year award' no doubt in part for her behavior around students.

I am not doing this to whatabout abuse in the Catholic Church. I left it and won't be going back. But it's so odd to bring it up on a post about a teacher getting charged, the school clearly not identifying the problem (she had been a teacher for 11 years, it had been going on for a year, they didn't report it and even rewarded her behavior prior to the reports).

Schools have a serious systemic problem here too, and I don't believe we should deflect every time it makes the news. That's all.

Yeah, I'm sorry about that. Got hit with three notifications at the same time and replied to the wrong one.

You clearly didn't read it. The rate not the raw number. Per the Dept. of Education, 5-7% of teachers are abusers. That is 20-50+% higher than the rate (i.e percent) priests abuse. The average school in America has several abusers in it.

Lemmy talks a big game about the Catholics, and damn does that church know how to run a cover up, but schools are frankly ripe for reforms and accountability.

Teachers abuse students at a rate of 20-50% higher than Catholic priests. Not defending the priests or anything, but I think we forget how horrificly high the abuse rate of teachers is.

You know he actually did a Nazi salute right?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elon_Musk_salute_controversy?wprov=sfla1

Speaking as a former Catholic, I honestly believe being more conservative will make the church more relevant. I'm not saying that's a good thing, to be clear, but we see what is happening to more liberal Christian denominations universally--they're rapidly declining. There are a number of reasons why that is, but liberal theology failing to retain members is a component there.

I think the most relevant issue the Church can bring to bear today is one that conservative and liberal Catholics alike tend to agree on. Even the most hard-line trad priests and laity I knew had a visceral hatred for laizez-faire capitalism (and often capitalism at large) and the commodification of the human experience. Pope Francis gave voice to it, and the next pope must follow suit. If he doesn't, regardless of theology, the church is doomed.

My first rec would be Rod Bennett's The Early Church in Her Own Words. It's a good starting point that grounds you in what the early authors of Christianity were thinking and discussing.