This notion of "the government" is the wrong premise. The US government is (supposed to be, I should say) an elaborate system of checks and balances to enable self-correction mechanisms. The Trump administration has turned that into a travesty, obviously, but the system itself is explicitly set up to be split into three branches that keep each other in check, and thus supervising itself.

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tastyfreeze 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Congress abdicated the majority of their authority to the executive over time by creating executive agencies. Now everybody is upset because the executive is actually using the power that Congress gave to it. The primary check on government growth is the three branches contending for power. No branch wants another branch to become more powerful and make their branch irrelevant. So, to fix the current issue, Congress can remove the power it has given to the executive and restore balance.

	▲	titzer an hour ago \| parent [-]
		> The primary check on government growth Disagree. The primary check on the government is consequences for violating the law and the constitution. That's just all gone out the window. Power without oversight, no matter how distributed, will tend towards either complete chaos or tyranny (or both, if such a thing is possible). Giving three mutually distrustful criminals guns will not cause law and order to spring out of nothing. An informed, angry and unforgiving citizenry is the only check on government, and we ain't go that.

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sampli 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

These checks and balances failed long before Trump started abusing the system

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sbseitz 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Not to this extent!

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buellerbueller 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Yes, sadly, several decades ago, one of the parties started running on the platform of "the government is broken" and to help the electability of said platform, they kept breaking the government.

	▲	fwip an hour ago \| parent [-]
		Look, I vote blue too, but you can't ignore that the Democrats have also pushed the slider further and further toward executive power every chance they get. Well, I guess I can't tell you what to do, so I suppose you can.

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alphawhisky 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

You misspelled "self-corruption"