Mind boggling that we're literally having the exact crisis the framers were afraid of. It's the societal equivalent of getting scurvy as a normal person in a modern society
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Andy Craig
The idea the president alone can levy taxes on a whim and spend it as he pleases without any congressional approval is the kind of thing so beyond the pale it's not unconstitutional, it's anti-constitutional. It is overturning in starkest terms the central rallying cry of the American Revolution.
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The other remedy is spelled out in the Declaration of Independence, notably not a legal document in its time
You cannot design a constitution to accommodate that state of affairs! You just can't! And shouldn't try!
THE problem that keeps plaguing this country and holding it back, probably.
Obviously it's still a big part of the picture, but 2024 has this additional wrinkle to me that... I feel like people are afraid of their OWN freedom
It's weird!!
That, and failing to finish Reconstruction
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So, so much of the checks and balances do not make sense if the founders assumed that political parties would inevitably form.
It is way too hard to remove presidents.
Though I'd argue that the South was essentially not a democracy even in a minimal sense.
But the thing can't work if they have NO sense of institutional pride
But what I said about the active dynamic from ratification through the recent past is still true
There was a reason I called the US constitution the worst in the world, and this is one example
"Okay, maybe the Articles weren't that bad"
I did not expect it to be time for America to elect itself a King.
I hate that institutional amnesia is the biggest threat to any system.