You seem to be talking about a different form of government where the president is the figure head and the prime minister has the executive power. But the US doesn't have a prime minister.
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To me trump is exposing the facade of american democracy. As its referred to sometimes as an experiment. This experiment has some clear experimental errors that should have been corrected long before trump showed up.
Personally I think there should be no state figurehead. Too much opportunity for concentration of power into one person. Government should be decentralized and run by the proletariat.
He declared a state of national emergency on Day 1, which is the fig leaf fraud for this whole shitshow. IDK how long this "state of emergency" can be legally allowed to stand. It seems to me that we need Congress to act as a check for any "state of emergency" exceeding say 30 days max.
It was always owned by the moneyed powers. It was the founding fathers who realized that their original setup had made democracy a little too actually democratic and they were afraid the will of the people would reflect, ukno, the *actual* people
And that's how we ended up with superminority rule.
It's always been a power struggle. It was clear when the democratic party was first created. A civil war ensued and of course the country was never on the same page again. I think it's a fools dream to think a democracy could ever work with such drastically different perspectives of 2 parties.
N o. Sorry. When people voted in someone that they knew was willing to suspend the Constitution, who is above the laws enshrined in it, and proved that, and who declared he wanted to be a dictator and praised other dictators, they voted to end our democracy, and they used democracy to do it, sadly.
It’s awful. The worst one is Fox News run by the Murdoch family. Musk with X. Zuckerberg wit META, Facebook and Instagram. The Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post. They are cutting AP,Associated Press, out of the Oval Office.
I guess so. But to me it seems more and more that America's governmental structure is built on the honor system, rather than a true balance of power structure. No president should be able to ignore federal judge's orders without consequences. Everyone holds each other accountable.
Yes, that's true. The court system doesn't have its own enforcement. In many countries, the military is the final gatekeeper for the constitution, and of course that would introduce additional risks too.
The President executes the laws the Congress enacts. The question is how much power should a President have to make laws, de facto laws. If the President can pick and choose whether to follow laws m, to spend appropriated funds, to ignore judicial decisions it disagrees with, that’s different.
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Ugly Gilded Age
And that's how we ended up with superminority rule.
I thought it favored unpopular things, not the rich