| ▲ | FortuneIIIPick 3 days ago |
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| ▲ | otterley 3 days ago | parent | next [-] |
| It’s not a fact, because it depends upon a subjective interpretation of the word “working.” Some might argue, for example, that if the President can cow Congress into subservience, then the three branches of government are no longer in balance with each other, and thus the constitution is no longer “working” as intended. |
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| ▲ | terminalshort 3 days ago | parent | next [-] | | Depends on how he cows them into subservience. If he uses the threat of electoral defeat for opposing him, that's totally legitimate. If he uses his position as commander in chief to threaten them with force, that's different. | | |
| ▲ | otterley 3 days ago | parent | next [-] | | It does not matter how. The fact that he is able to do it at all illustrates a design weakness. Until recently, Presidents chose (consciously or otherwise) not to exploit that weakness. It doesn’t mean the weakness wasn’t always there. | |
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| ▲ | mjparrott 3 days ago | parent | prev [-] | | It can be true that the constitution is not working as intended, AND the US is a far cry from a country like Russian in terms of it operating as a constitutional republic / democracy. It is not subjective to say the US is more of a democratic country than Russia. | | |
| ▲ | otterley 3 days ago | parent | next [-] | | I think Russia was being used as an extreme example. It wasn't being lauded as a model nation, far from it. | | |
| ▲ | curt15 3 days ago | parent [-] | | Maybe not yet, but the current US president has lauded authoritarian Hungary as a model for the US. |
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| ▲ | vkou 3 days ago | parent | prev [-] | | Rome wasn't built in a day, you don't go straight from 2024 to throwing people out of windows overnight. But you get there by doing exactly what's being done on a daily basis. |
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| ▲ | mrbombastic 3 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| The power of the purse is currently being usurped by the executive branch with no pushback from a republican congress, armed forces are being deployed to American cities, media corporations are being forced to have admin installed bias police, due process is a joke, museums are being forced to remove information the admin find objectionable. You can bury your head in the sand if you like but there are plenty of us who won’t. |
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| ▲ | chankstein38 3 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| I always think it's funny how people who have strong opinions based on nothing love to out themselves by just repeating that something is fact. clap clap We're all convinced, for sure! ;) |
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| ▲ | ricardobeat 3 days ago | parent | prev [-] |
| How do you explain Trump unilaterally renaming the Ministry of Defense, without legislative approval? Is it a “working branch” if their constitutionally granted power is easily sidestepped? |
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| ▲ | otterley 3 days ago | parent | next [-] | | Do you mean the Department of Defense? The U.S. doesn't have ministries. | |
| ▲ | terminalshort 3 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | I couldn't care less because it has always been and always will be the department of war whether or not the letterhead says "Department of Defense." | |
| ▲ | nickthegreek 3 days ago | parent | prev [-] | | the dod was not officially renamed to the dow. that would take an act of congress. he gave it a secondary title. | | |
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