Comment by lewisjoe

5 years ago

The famous mathamatician Godel was onto this some decades ago and found a loophole that allowed the American democracy to be legally turned into a dictatorship.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6del%27s_Loophole

Exactly the sort of misunderstanding of power you'd expect from a mathematician. It isn't the constitution itself that keeps governments from seizing dictatorial power. No potential dictator is going to say "Damn, Article V says it can't be applied to itself! My plans are foiled!"