Michigan senator, Elissa Slotkin, followed the joint speech of Donald Trump on Tuesday, focusing on the risk of declining democracy, directly putting citizens to play an active role in the holding of elected officials – herself.
The Democratic Senator of the first mandate, which represents a state won by the president, explained how the preservation of democracy requires constant and active participation of voters.
“Our democracy, our very system of government, was the aspiration of the world, and at the moment it is in danger,” said Slotkin in the official democratic response. “It is at risk when the president decides that you can choose and choose the rules you want to follow, when he ignores the judicial orders and the Constitution itself, or when elected leaders remain on the move and that it happens.”
The first mandate senator described a three -step approach for citizens: staying informed, monitoring the voting registers of elected representatives and actively organizing questions that matter for a given person. She designed citizen surveillance as “American than apple pie”.
Slotkin checked the statements on Trump’s account on a booming economy, explaining that if the administration had praised overwhelming success, “national debt increases, not broken”.
The International Chamber of Commerce has echoed these concerns earlier in the day, warning that massive prices activated by Trump in Canada and Mexico have risked triggering an economic slowdown that could devastate the global economy that has followed a mass fall on the stock market. Slotkin added that social security reductions and other critical programs were not the means to resolve the national debt or the effectiveness of the government.
“We need a more effective government. You want to cut the waste, I will help you do it. But change does not need to be chaotic or make us less sure, “she said.
Inspired by its national security history, Slotkin warned that democracies are fragile institutions that can “sparkle” without real protection.
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“If the previous generations had not fought for this democracy, where would we be today?” Slotkin said.
