There is no system of government that works when those charged with enforcing the law abdicate their duty.
That is not to say that our system of government is perfect. It is far from it. However, you can’t design a foolproof system and if there’s one thing I know about Americans it’s that we fucking love electing fools.
The billionaire class likes electing fools, the morons just listen to them (their ads, news networks, and more recently—the billionaires’ social media sites).
Getting money out of politics would be a huge step, but that would probably also require some kind of coup.
Yeah, the issue is that even if the system is perfect on paper, people will still be people. Even if the system has checks in place to prevent dictatorships, those checks will inevitably rely on people actually enforcing the rules. And what happens if those people are in favor of the dictator and actively want him to be in power, and thus refuse to stop the dictator from rising to power?
I think a lot of what he did actually is against the law, it’s just that the courts take a long time to catch up. In the last week we’ve seen dozens of lawsuits start to gain steam and probably many of them will successfully undo a lot of the damage that has been done.
We also have to deal with the problem that the courts have been stacked with MAGA judges who also don’t care about the law, but that’s something we need to blame on them, and not just on Mr. Orange.
Well, yeah. That’s how laws work. He’s exploiting how much we’ve relied on social norms and didn’t codify the rules.
He and his administration are also ignoring the codified rules.
We relied on reasonable people enforcing the rules, but ignored the fact that they haven’t enforced jack shit against Republicans for decades.
The thing with rules is, they only work if they’re enforced. That’s even one of the balances of power between the branches.
There is no system of government that works when those charged with enforcing the law abdicate their duty.
That is not to say that our system of government is perfect. It is far from it. However, you can’t design a foolproof system and if there’s one thing I know about Americans it’s that we fucking love electing fools.
The billionaire class likes electing fools, the morons just listen to them (their ads, news networks, and more recently—the billionaires’ social media sites).
Getting money out of politics would be a huge step, but that would probably also require some kind of coup.
Yeah, the issue is that even if the system is perfect on paper, people will still be people. Even if the system has checks in place to prevent dictatorships, those checks will inevitably rely on people actually enforcing the rules. And what happens if those people are in favor of the dictator and actively want him to be in power, and thus refuse to stop the dictator from rising to power?
I think a lot of what he did actually is against the law, it’s just that the courts take a long time to catch up. In the last week we’ve seen dozens of lawsuits start to gain steam and probably many of them will successfully undo a lot of the damage that has been done.
We also have to deal with the problem that the courts have been stacked with MAGA judges who also don’t care about the law, but that’s something we need to blame on them, and not just on Mr. Orange.