The president largely doesn’t have too much power. Problem is the other two branches of government conceding theirs.
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skozzii@lemmy.ca 22 hours ago
Well one thing these last years have taught me is that the US president has way too much power.
It was never an issue before because presidents didn’t test it, but this is insanity.
EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 17 hours ago
Also: The same party has both houses of Congress who pretty much abdicated their power to the Executive branch.
AHemlocksLie@lemmy.zip 17 hours ago
To be fair, in many ways the president doesn’t have the power. But Republicans in congress are complicit, so when he does incredibly illegal, batshit crazy stuff, none of the mechanisms to keep him in check function. Him being president is a big problem, but the real problem here is the complete abdication of responsibility by those meant to check him.
Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
Yeah. Want a minimum wage increase, legal cannabis, childcare, family leave, protecting Roe, protecting democracy itself, pursuing justice for January 6 or Epstein’s victims, and the president is conveniently powerless.
Want to ignore the law to sell weapons for genocide and the president is fucking omnipotent.
DasSkelett@discuss.tchncs.de 7 hours ago
That’s definitely true, but I’d still say the president shouldn’t even have the power to issue such decrees. Many of these things wouldn’t even happen if the president would first have to convince the legislative body (even if controlled by his own party) to write a law. Reverting an already issued decree is harder than saying no beforehand, and politically much more delicate.
Johanno@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 hours ago
Which is what shocked me. I can understand that there are a few foul eggs in politics and if they take the wheel shits going down.
But since his second term literally nobody did stop any illegal shit from him.
The whole system is corrupt and broken. Nobody dares to defy the president even if they are supposed to!
Doc_Crankenstein@slrpnk.net 12 hours ago
What is happening with this administration is exposing the great flaw of electoralism that anarchists and leftists have been warning about for nearly a century.
That if we do not restructure our society, our politics and our culture leave us manipulatable to where these corrupt individuals could systematically consolidate power and out themselves or their allies into positions of power.
This is the result of not a decade but over a century of political and systemic manipulation by the owning-class.
Living in the US during this time has radicalized me so much against the system.
Quill7513@slrpnk.net 12 hours ago
it all starts with half assing copying the Haudenosaunee’s system in 1789
sobchak@programming.dev 12 hours ago
I don’t think it’s so much “fear” of defying the president as it is they’re getting what they want from him (white christo-fascism), and they’re getting bribed by the same people. Most of the Dems are also dependant on the same interests as well (not necessarily the white Christian-nationalist stuff, but the same money). The concentration of wealth has put far too much power into too few hands. These same people are heavily influencing politics and public opinion worldwide. Idk, how we get out of this mess; have to bring the entire global economic system to its knees; forcibly redistribute their wealth or make it worthless I guess.