Comment by lebuffon

6 hours ago

So the "checks and balances" we were taught in school was just nonsense?

How could it be that a political system which remained largely structurally unchanged since the freaking 18th century isn't equipped to deal with everything that has been going on in the world since then?

It must be due to bad actors.

Kinda yeah, much like how Americans are taught that they are a bastion of democracy, yet your convoluted electoral system has led to multiple instances of your president losing the popular vote.

They weren't nonsense until we had people in positions of power decide that they were.

At the end of the day, pieces of paper are just pieces of paper.