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Originally Posted by Commander Wallace
The U.S Govt Has checks and balances built in to keep things in balance.
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I must be dreamnign that I still must read such things. Since three years I see these things failing with flying colours and trumpet fanfares.
But then, the NSDAP was voted to power, and Hitler formally absolutely correctly got announced as Reichskanzler bei Hindenburg. Formally, all that was correct and according to the laws. But then, the tyranny later, the crimes committed by the state and its organs, all were legally excused, all based on valid laws of that time. Some parts of Germany's modern legislation are the same as back in that time, or bases on them!
You can have compliance with all such rules, and nevertheless the evil comes to power, legally, formally correctly (thats what make sit so tricky to resist it and to stop it whuile there sitll is time), and untouched by checks and balances.
Later many Germans said in Nürnberg they were just following orders. Orders given by superiors who then acted on grounds of higher orders - and legal authorizations. The same principle then worked again later after the war, during the Soviet occupation and the reign of the SED in the GDR. They acted within the reach of the laws in that country. The crimes they committed,
were legally no crimes, not by their own laws.
Your country as well, every country in the world, is vulnerable to such processes. the basis for safeties and checks and balances failing in the end almost always is complecancy with the status quo and or/the legacy one enjoys as a heir.
If your checks and balances would work, it would not need a full term or even two terms to get rid of a malicious imposter in office abusing the powers he has been given for his own private, personal interest. The past three years prove two things: the weakness and indiffernce of the Democrats, and the failing of the system itself. Itr has not what it takes to stop somehtign like Trump. The designers of this system probably just could not imagine something like Trump ever happening.
Sorry, but your country is as normal as so many others as well. And your politics are as broken as in almost all other countries as well. Maybe even more so. Welcome amongst the rest of us.