It’s quite interesting how American’s have always been about their government’s “checks and balances” to prevent tyranny, but all it took was one person who was fine with saying, “fuck your checks and balances” to effectively create a dictatorship, and the whole government is left blabbering, “you can’t do that” with no mechanism to actually do anything meaningful to remove the tyrant.
Like, I’m sure there were “checks and balances” in place for employing directors of these various governments offices, so it’s almost comical that a President can just fire anyone who doesn’t agree with him. I suppose it’s not surprising for a country with very little worker protections, though.
While there are certainly flaws in the American system of government, this is not the result of one man simply being above the law. There are plenty of existing ways to stop this from happening but half of the government is actively supporting his efforts. There is no system of government that can survive when the people who are charged with enforcing the rules collectively decide not to enforce them. At that point the specifics don’t matter.
That’s a great point. Doesn’t much matter if there are methods in place if many are complicit in the tyranny.
It’s all social contracts. When those break down, a lot of shit breaks.
Also when one party refuses to do jack shit about the approaching storm, hoping for the status quo and retaining their little bits of power. That doesn’t help either.
It’s quite interesting how American’s have always been about their government’s “checks and balances”
Hahaha, that’s a good one.
The US has always been about slave owners on stolen land to be in power with all its perks but without any of its responsibilities by putting as much wool over everyone’s eyes as much as they can.
Every supposed check and balance the US has is to keep these oligarchs in power.
And they’re all laughably theatrical like putting in enormous importance into term limits, like it’s some kind of pinnacle of democracy.
As if dictators will stop dictating because there’s a clock involved.
All it does is stop the public from choosing the one leader that isn’t corrupted by monied interests over and over again.
It does not stop a leader from speedrunning into doing whatever he wants.Given we have millions who actively voted for this shit and millions more who didn’t bother to vote against this shit, nothing surprising (that’s even without counting in the fact those millions are not directly voting for heads of departments etc)
What I find hilarious is that around half a year before I used to see the sentiment that “no such thing as good Russians, see what they are allowing to happen”. Well, kudos for those they-are-so-evil-we-are-not people (sarcasm, of course), how are you doing against a delusional tyrant put in place of power by rich fucking idiots? (question is rhetorical, my piece is done)
There are a lot of people working with Trump. It’s not just him that’s the problem.
piracy is moral and they are hellbent on making it more moral than actually buying the slop
