The authors of the Constitution separated powers for a reason.
That’s all well and good until at least one of those branches utterly and completely abdicates its duties…
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You misspelled “kisses the ass of the dictator”.
Kind of feels like all three branches have done that. Congress isn’t holding the executive or the courts to account, the court is splitting the power transfer with the executive branch to avoid being made outright irrelevant, and the executive branch is acting like a monarchy.
The system was invented to profit from enslaving people. They’re still doing their “best”.
Boy it’s a good thing Trump isn’t wiping his ass with the constitution then, huh?
Give me a fucking break. The constitution is worthless if it gets ignored and nobody does anything about it.
Yep the system was built on good faith and the idea that at least one of these branches would do better.
If I were to rebuild the system I’d probably push greater power to state legislatures and the people of the state over their congressional representatives. For example say a 2/3rds majority of a state senate can recall a congressman and trigger reelection. Then every state should also have a way for the people directly to trigger recall elections.
Elections for the house and senate also need to occur yearly or every other year. Imagine if 1/4th of senate seats were elected every year.
We need to expand congress. 2 senators per state was for when the US had way less people. Why not bump it up to 3? The house of Representatives could also use another 100+ seats added.
Finally put term limits on the Supreme Court and introduce ranked choice voting.
A parliamentary system is superior in just about every way.
Shh, don’t say the P-word. Call it proportional representation. Anything that sounds too British is almost certainly doomed.
The constitution is worthless because it’s an outdated pact between literal slavers.
You wanna know why no one does anything? Because people post shit like this about how we are fucked and then go about their day feeling like they did something.
You act like we didnt just have the 3rd biggest protest on American Soil ever. Democracy may die in the dark but in these days thats also where its being saved.
The bickering isn’t helping. You both have a point, and I agree that more action is needed. Unfortunately, money rules all and protests are not effective in the US unless they are tied to financial outcomes. General strikes may be what it takes to actually yield change.
Those are happening. But looking at all the movements they probably needed to start all of this during the election, not after the fact. Theres just not enough time now.
It should’ve started before the election. The time to avoid this outcome was February to August 2024.
Shit we probably should have convicted him in 2020. A lot of points of failure here. Really doesnt make much sense.
Reminds me of that Yogi Berra quote: “In theory, theory and practice are the same thing. In practice, they’re not.”
Pretty sure the people who wrote the constitution inspired the nazis.
When the separated powers are all stacked by the same side it is why a dictatorship could succeed.
There must be more immediate consequences for anyone who seeks to sidestep its purpose.
Bit early for takes like that, no? Americans still have the whole dictatorship ahead of them, we’re currently seeing it being established.
the article is about how dictatorships are a worse form of government than republics. It means that dictatorships fail because they creates poorer and worse countries. not that they fails because they are not able to maintain themselves
the system created by that first Constitutional Congress has comprehensively failed.
