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It's a nutty idea. America has no king. America needs no king. But in fairness the presidency is a powerful position and has grown more so over time. And there
by johan_larson 9y ago
It's a nutty idea. America has no king. America needs no king.
But in fairness the presidency is a powerful position and has grown more so over time. And there are other ways of doing things. In some republics, the president is a fairly minor figure, largely ceremonial. Does that work better?
- dfraser992 9y agoPerhaps the benefit of the Trump presidency will be the average American wakes up to how non-important the President is in of itself and that the important thing is the process of politics, or the unspoken norms that Trump is demolishing, or ... something more abstract than the position and whoever is the current inhabitant. That was sort of the point of the American Revolution and all the ideals America is supposed to embody. [i.e. the progressive libtard ones, not the regressive pseudo-conservative aka almost fascist ones Trump is a symbol of]
- orf 9y agoIn those republics that role often fufils the role of the monarch, I think.