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Yeah but who the hell is going to step up and actually try to stop him? The populace is divided as ever, they can't come together to agree that one guy's totalitarian nature is destroying their livelihoods in all political fields.
Foreign nations are starting to realize that they may well just be on their own because Trump can't give a single shit to support or engage in peaceful negotiations.
All republican branches of government are bootlickers who say bold things but will not budge.
Congress seems to just sit there.
Democrats seem to only just shout things and threaten authority but to someone who has proven to not address or even acknowledge authority, what good would that all do?
To me it seems that there is no actual hard checks and balances, it's all based on respecting norms, and anyone who doesn't, that has control of the executive branch, will be very hard to stop.
But that's what I've been warning USA about repeatedly for more than 20 years. USA is a dysfunctional democracy, the 2 party system undermines democracy. Everybody has known that since the constitution was written, but Americans wanted that because they imagine this system to be more "efficient" at making "strong" decisions.
Maybe so, but if it's at the cost of democracy, those decisions are very likely not good decisions.
I think we can safely say that the US government has failed the people for decades, despite being richer, when you compare to the superior rights and freedoms and quality of life in Europe.
As an absolute fan of USA in the 70's when I was young, the decline of American society over the past 50 years has been a sad sight.
Everything changed when Reagan was elected over Carter, and the humanist ideal have never come back.
We were the first modern democracy. No one did the math on how FPTP works until over 50 years after the country was founded, and by then it had already produced our two party system. IIRC, they did the math to determine if the US was a fluke, or if that was the natural conclusion of FPTP voting.
You, the people, out in the streets, rioting, en masse. That's how democracy was won, and it's what is needed to maintain it.
No, that's not true. Even in the context of decrying people understating the problem, you are also understating the problem.
(I'm not saying that to attack you, by the way -- it's really hard not to do that, both because of the lag getting over the "denial" stage of grief and the fact that the MAGAs are moving so fast it gets worse by the minute.)
What's happening re: foreign relations isn't that Trump isn't giving a shit; it's that Trump is actively unilaterally forcing the US to switch sides and ally with Russia.