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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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[-] bob_lemon@feddit.org 1 points 5 days ago

The basic idea of the founders was good, but the US implementation of checks and balances is wildly outdated. There were several points where equivalent powers have proven disastrous in other countries over the last 3 centuries, and the US failed to act upon such data.

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