You’d think a hegemony with a 100-years tradition of upkeeping democracy against major non-democratic players, would have some mechanism that would prevent itself from throwing down it’s key ideology.
Is it really that the president is all that decides about the future of democracy itself? Is 53 out of 100 senate seats really enough to make country fall into authoritarian regime? Is the army really not constitutionally obliged to step in and save the day?
I’d never think that, of all places, American democracy would be the most volatile.
We have the Bill of Rights which limits the government’s authority.
To be fair, that’s a piece of paper. If the President violates that and isn’t impeached then there’s nothing physical to stop him.
This guy has been impeached twice and convicted of 34 felony charges. So we actually need something physical to stop him.
HAHAHAHHAHAAH
you were making a joke, right? Because Trump right now is using the constitution and the bill of rights and everything like it in his personal bathroom as toilet paper.
We’re 2 days in and it’s already a giant shit show world wide and we have 4 more years to go.
You better brace yourself for what’s coming
He’s got to golf at some point.
That is what the people of america want. They look at what bernie sanders offered, said he was a radical commie totalitarian terrorist and went for trump overwhelmingly." You are fucked in the head as a people and you absolutely deserve your country to be a shitshow cause you like it that way.
You think the “Americans on Lemmy” demographic is your target audience?