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President Trump is showing us why concentrated power is so dangerous (lemmy.world)
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As you can all see, power can easily corrupt anyone.

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[-] mindlesscrollyparrot@discuss.tchncs.de 20 points 6 days ago

The fundamental problem is that, while the people grant power to representatives at elections, there is no mechanism to revoke it. For example, the Senate can impeach the president mid-term, but the people cannot. Nor can they remove their senators or congressional representatives.

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