Comment by hdgvhicv
3 days ago
A civilised country can not be destroyed by one king, nor saved by a new leader.
America has checks and balances, and they have failed. There’s no “wait 3 years”, that’s over, as America will always be one election away from anarchy or worse.
The only way out is the Republican Party impeaching him and spending the next 10 years undoing the damage at the top and next 40 year rebuilding civil society.
> America has checks and balances, and they have failed.
America pretended to have checks and balances. Everyone just turned a blind eye to the massive holes in them and pretended things were going to be fiiiiine.
Our own "founding fathers" knew that no system could stop someone determined enough to destroy it from inside.
"The dignity and stability of government in all its branches, the morals of the people, and every blessing of society depend so much upon an upright and skillful administration of justice, that the judicial power ought to be distinct from both the legislative and executive, and independent upon both, that so it may be a check upon both, as both..."
— John Adams
And our government doesn't have that necessary firebreak. Justice is part of the Executive.
Source: https://www.mass.gov/guides/john-adams-architect-of-american...
Benjamin Franklin literally stated it was "good enough for now" (where "now" == hundreds of years past) despite lacking sufficient checks and balances, and would need constant attendance and amending over time until the likes of the Federalists found themselves a Trump to white ant the US from the inside out.
~ https://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/documents/a7s3.html
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The Justice Department isn't the same as the judicial branch. The Justice Department is (among several other things) the lawyers who represent the government in front of (judicial branch) courts.
I believe Canada's prime minister gave an interesting speech about this at Davos.
Never in the past an irreversible decline of a hundred long empire has started in one year. Abrupt crisis end abruptly. Never any political party has impeached it's winning leader. Nowadays the country needs a Dem President, whoever they are. The new billionaires will have different priorities, again not friendly but more peaceful. You just have to wait, as we do in my country every now and then.
This hasn’t started in one year, it’s been going over a decade, probably since the GFC and rise of the tea party.
It’s not about Trump, it’s the 85m that voted for Trump.
Arguably several decades. A lot of the current politics is derived from the destruction of the education system and from general economic frustration, which have been building for decades.