Comment on He was no friend to the middle class
merc@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks agoIt’s not about “the elite” or anything. Jobs as a government representative are different. You can’t be fired from those jobs in a normal way because you don’t have a direct boss.
Imagine if you could be fired by someone, say the president, if you didn’t show up. You know Trump would weaponize that to find a way to fire democrats. It’s the same reason that there aren’t laws that prevent someone with a criminal record from running for office, because that would encourage the president to come up with an excuse for getting their political opponents convicted of crimes, and therefore making them ineligible to run.
As a general rule, most political issues are supposed to be solved by elections. But, unfortunately, that leaves many situations where the public has to wait around for an election to try to right things.
bold_atlas@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Imagine if we could actually fire the president. Then he wouldn’t able to that shit.
merc@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
Theoretically we can fire the president. That was one of the situations they considered when they created the system. They just didn’t understand that political parties were inevitable, and that they’d become so strong that a corrupt party would protect a corrupt president. And that that same corrupt party would corrupt the news so that ignorant people would believe their lies and keep voting for them.
It should be hard to fire the president though. Otherwise you know that Mitch McConnell would have found some way to fire Obama.
Really, we need political systems to be designed by mathematicians or scientists who understand Game Theory and can really figure out how to prevent collusion. A bunch of 20-something-year-olds in the 1700s did a fairly good job of coming up with a decent non-monarchy (both otherwise very similar to British) system of government. But, I would hope a new country starting today would not make some of the same mistakes.