Seems to me if we had the greatest political system in the world, it wouldn’t equip a maniacal bully with the ability to demolish everything in the world on a whim, to protect his ego from knowledge of his own profound ignorance.
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If you consider how much effort, money, and subversion had to go into attaining this state of affairs (and MAINtaining it!) you wouldn't cast such aspersions. We did have that. It took a long time and a lot of money to break, even for long enough to get here.
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Well said!
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You didn't.
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Perfectly stated.
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Several years ago I was blocked by a very prestigious legal scholar on Twitter for having the audacity to suggest that a legal system which takes longer achieve justice that it does to overthrow said system, is doomed for failure.
And I didn’t even go to law school. 🧐
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There’s a lot I don’t know about US politics, but Trump seems to have done a lot of bad stuff with executive orders. From here it seems he waves a nasty wand and it’s done. No democratic process. Have I got it wrong?
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I mean, a system is only so good as the people in it.
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2016 proved that we are far from having a good political system.
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Ignorance and evil.
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Turns out that a system that, in hindsight, was largely based on trusting people not to be utter cunts and/or spineless bootleggers wasn't as robust as might have been supposed.
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I cannot wait until the day we get to wake up and he is gone from the earth.
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Any country that allows a convicted felon to be a presidential candidate but unable to vote is clearly asking for trouble.
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Republicans obviously approve of pedophelia. Hope they like when their children become one - either offender or victim.
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There’s a lot to unpack there.
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"Checks and balances"
Sure, Jan.
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Well said!
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The american electoral system has always been deeply suspect. The electoral college has literally voted for someone who does not exist before.
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Yeah it's really been a shocker how so much of it is just "someone who gets elected president will follow along with the way things are supposed to be because it's such a honor, you know?" WHEN THEY HAD THE FIRST FOUR YEARS as an example already!
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I'm thinking checks & balances enforced by the honor system was not a good idea.🫤
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I am of the opinion that while the forefathers did a decent job of forming our govt, they screwed up royally in several areas. Slavery of course. The corrupt electoral college. And most of all not preparing systematically for a corrupt punk like tRump cheating his way into OUR White House.
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Our system doesn’t equip him to. Our system prevents it.
This is why I keep saying This has been a coup and we are an occupied nation.
The constitution has been eliminated & the administration does what it wants.
It must be removed so the constitutional rule of law can be reinstated.
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The alarm bells were ringing when, during Biden's term, liberals were talking about how "checks and balances" and "conventions" would curb Trumps worst excesses. Even then, I was thinking, "What if he doesn't care about that shit?"
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And his own profound depravity
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It was only ever a republic if we could keep it. We didn't.
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#TrumpPedoProtector #POTUS protects pedophiles. No other way to read it. Release the #Epstein files.
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Our system relies upon the populace to make reasoned choices as well.
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Well said!
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This power of centralization has been going on for decades and this is its final form.
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US model is dead. Parliamentary democracy won out
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I don’t really think of political systems in terms of whether they’re “great” or not, but I also don’t think we can blame the political system for the recklessness of the electorate.
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Well put.
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No system of government works when a person with the worst flaws a human can have is propped up by greedy power hungry tools
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We did before the nazis systematicly set out to destroy it 50 years ago, getting in bed with pootie to destroy Gorbachev and hand pootie Russia, they just weren't smart enough to insulate themselves from pootie's kompromat that now their are all his #PootiePuppets
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Oh, Rose, you're so stuck up.
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It wouldn’t, if even half the legislators actually acted as the voice of their constituents. Nobody could have imagined that 60% of DC would unfortunately have their spines dissolved in a mysterious accident.
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What the founders (and re-founders) never anticipated was a bad-faith leadership across all three branches that would do nothing but accumulate power in order to build their own fortunes. The people were only given empowerment capabilities, not recall capabilities.
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trump is a once in a lifetime kind of anomaly. He came at the right time for bigots in this country to have a savior.
The system would be holding if not for SCOTUS, the severe cowardice of the Republican party and the Democratic party's inability to fight the way it's needed.
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If we had the greatest political system in the world, the population would be educated enough, wise enough, and free from bigotry/bias/racism
...to make better FUCKING DECISIONS
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He couldn't do a fraction of the horrific things he has done or wants to do, without the R House and Senate giving him carte blanche for all of his cruel whims! They are leading the U.S. down the path of fascist countries ! I want my country back
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Just proves the inmates shouldn’t be running the asylum.
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Clearly we don't
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The USA never did. It wasn’t the worst, but it was always susceptible to big money influence. Not I fear it WILL become (one) of the worst.
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You’d think 🤷♀️
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100%.
(it also occurs to me that if you truly had the greatest political system in the world, other countries would have copied it.)
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We're stress-testing democracy in ways we didn't even realize, and it's failing badly. When the assumption of checks and balances between the executive, legislative and judicial branches proves to be untrue, there's really nothing left.
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Unleashed greed will result in unleashed chaos. Chinese proverb
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But why wouldn't the people of this hypothetical system, stop him?
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Everyone's bitching about cynicism. What am I supposed to be right now?!
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Perhaps it's precisely at moments like these that the resilience of democracy is most evident, or perhaps most fragile. This situation is indeed disturbing, but perhaps it also makes it all the more important for us to consider how institutions can be strengthened.
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It’s the “greatest in the world” according to the buffoon who runs it. Self aggrandisement presented as other than fiction is a joke.
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And all at lightning speed
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This, actually.
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Picky, picky, picky.
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or, protect the world from the knowledge that he and those closest to him benefit from the systemic rape of children
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Pretty much no system works if the people in it decide to not actually do anything. Every political system hinges on "we're all going to be cool about this, right?" Same with money, only works if we all go "yeah those numbers have value". I don't know how you fix PEOPLE.
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Weird that the UK has let you mess around with your silly rules and hi-faluting shit for 250 years and you’re all so really shit at it, that you’ve anointed a king again.
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In many ways he reflects and highlights what is wrong with America.
Americans constant bragging about being the best “protects its ego from knowledge of its profound ignorance.”
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God Damn John Roberts and Torquemada Alito did that.
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So the weird/fun/sad thing is that Republicans in Congress can stop this any time they want. They had no problems holding 10 hearings over 17 months, costing taxpayers $7 million, over Benghazi -- which yielded literally nothing. Imagine Republicans took their jobs/oaths seriously.
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Very nicely articulated.
