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Originally Posted by u crank
Sorry but again you don't seem to grasp how the American system works. The President does not wield unlimited power. He is restrained by Congress and the Judicial system. The President cannot introduce and pass laws. Congress does that and it is elected, both Senators and House Reps. by popular vote. The people can decide if they want to check the President's power and they do quite regularly. Most mid term elections go against the White House.
By real results I assume that you mean the popular vote. That may work in some countries but in the USA that would mean a permanent Democratic White House. Would that be good for the country as a whole? I doubt it. In my life time Presidents usually get two terms and then the other party takes over. The only variation from that was Carter and Bush Sr. The people who complain the most are usually the people who didn't win. Hillary Clinton and her supporters and the Trump haters.
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Please. Beleiuve me, I understand the design of the system, I am just not as beleiving that ti works as the foundign father sintended as you seem to be. I do not trust ins oemthign njust becasue it is wqritten, and rules can be avoided anyway, can be exploited, widened, bend, up to the point where oyu comamnd things witho9ut giving a verbal ciommnand you could be held repso9nsible for, and so forth.
We have a phrase in German: "paper is patient".
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Real tyranny would be a country ruled by one political party.
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Thjat is just one example of tyranny. The anient Greek not for no reaosn difefrentiated between three base forms of it. And massive industry lobbying, deep stgate and industrial miliuaty compexes they did not even imagine.
One advice. Don't believe so easily just because it is written. Trump has broken several rules - and got away with it because the system was never prepared for somebody like him appearing, and the other party was too dumb. the checks and balances faile din preventing ther worst case turning real and maximising damage. For keeping in check threats like Trumpian figures and their malicious ways, the system is unfit, and was never designed for. Its designers could not imagine that a scenario like today could ever turn real. It was unimaginable for them. And I think the same I would need to say after three years of the radical left of the Democrats dominating the WH.
I have often said over the past twenty years that I see the US two ways: by the idealistic claim of what it wanted to be (great sympoathy from me), once; and by the reality that it is today (no sympathy from me).
Both are worlds apart. The ideal cannot live up to the reality.