- Yeah—and my post was the optimistic scenario Archived Message
Posted by DT
on March 21, 2025, 5:55:59, in reply to "it’s looking mighty bleak. *"
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Pretty good chance if Democrats manage to win back the presidency that they’d just decide to wield the same authoritarian tools to pursue their interests and attack their enemies, rather than trying to reform the system. Biden and Obama certainly made no efforts to try and rebalance power back away from the executive and towards the legislature. Instead they used the powers they had and stretched them to try and achieve their policy goals. And the fact that Congress is a completely dysfunctional clown college, utterly incapable of executing the bare minimum of their responsibilities, is a big contributing factor to the gradual and now rapid assertion of unitary executive authority. It’s hard to restore a proper balance of powers when one branch has near zero capacity or interest in doing the slightest bit of functional governance.  Previous MessagePrevious MessageWhen one of two parties has the single-minded goal of establishing a dictatorship and enough electoral support to regularly win elections, I’m not sure you can design a system of government that can withstand it, short of making it completely dysfunctional by not giving the executive the ability to actually function. Even if the Democrats win back the presidency and use the power to try and put in place guardrails and re-establish a republic, the foundation is still rotten and would likely be quickly eroded again once there was a Republican president. Sulla tried this 2000 years ago and it failed within a generation. Previous Messageand the CEO has properly cowed all members of the board whose votes actually count, so he can do whatever he wants the best case scenario is that this can begin to be repaired starting in 2027, but that's looking less and less likely
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- tvillini March 27, 2025, 11:45:41