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clutchtwopointzero@lemmy.world 5 months ago
America’s vaunted “checks and balances” are, in the end, just smoke and mirrors to lie to the population and hide the fact that American institutions give way too much power to the president and there are no institutional controls to make the president behave.
xor@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 months ago
not true. congress could definitely remove the president… they just won’t do it because they’re too fascist themselves….
clutchtwopointzero@lemmy.world 5 months ago
But isn’t it depressing that impeachment is the ONLY mechanism to make a sitting president accountable for decisions that actually harm the country?
xor@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 months ago
sorta… well what’s depressing is our two party system, and party loyalty, makes it almost impossible for it to happen… and no voters actually care about holding congress accountable