"Impoundment" is one of those words that's almost guaranteed to make normal people's eyes glaze over so I did not use it in this piece, but it's an extremely crucial issue! Executives having sole control of the fiscal powers of government is very very bad! No democracy can function that way. - ThreadSky

adamgurri.liberalcurrents.com • 51 days ago

"Impoundment" is one of those words that's almost guaranteed to make normal people's eyes glaze over so I did not use it in this piece, but it's an extremely crucial issue! Executives having sole control of the fiscal powers of government is very very bad! No democracy can function that way.

Reposted from Liberal Currents

“Democracy is not just about using elections to pick your leaders. An election that picked an all-powerful executive who had the authority to change laws at will would not remain a democracy for long.” www.liberalcurrents.com/trump-and-mu...

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truskers.bsky.social•51 days ago

“Stealing”. The word is “stealing”

erichluepke.bsky.social•51 days ago

"Funding freeze" might be a good lay term for it. "Spending freeze" is technically just as accurate but it also intrinsically justifies the unjustifiable act.

henryporter.bsky.social•51 days ago

I think there’s a deep category error where “democracy” and “representative democracy” are not actually that closely related.

adamgurri.liberalcurrents.com•51 days ago

Legislatures are the secret weapon of liberal democracy that make it possible for a system to have both rule of law *and* be democratic. When executives throw off that yoke, a democracy AND rule of law are cooked https://www.liberalcurrents.com/trump-and-musks-illegal-and-undemocratic-attack-on-the-power-of-the-purse/

bpwhitecurl.bsky.social•50 days ago

I’ve called my congressman daily to tell him to speak up for democracy
Or else his job is toast:
Soggy, growing cold on the counter

katiecannon.bsky.social•50 days ago

Too bad we forgot that our Constitution established our national currency as a public monopoly to serve the ends of a democratic citizenry

katiecannon.bsky.social•50 days ago

⬆️

But given that, we need to think more deeply about what money *is*

And get creative about creating a public money at the local level

https://bsky.app/profile/videotroph.bsky.social/post/3lhrfw5dar22s

davidmenschel.bsky.social•50 days ago

I’m not an historian, but the power of legislatures to appropriate money in the Anglo American tradition goes back to at least the Glorious Revolution.

adamgurri.liberalcurrents.com•50 days ago

And that was after a century or so of bitter disputes between Parliament and the Crown

johnfromnearboston.bsky.social•51 days ago

Thanks for the phrase "Ketamine Coup." I've been looking for a decent name for this thing.

The rest is great too!

adamgurri.liberalcurrents.com•51 days ago

Gotta hand it to @aselrod.bsky.social for this one

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