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I don't understand why your upper comment was downvoted since it points at a core aspect of the systemic problem that in a democracy the different branches are

I don't understand why your upper comment was downvoted since it points at a core aspect of the systemic problem that in a democracy the different branches are supposed to keep each other in check: legislative, judiciary and executive branches. If you have an executive branch without oversight from the judiciary, it just grows like a cancer since the executive government doesn't need to prove anything, and the right to legal defense is vaporized... your quote: >... used (and expanded) the purely executive branch assassination program

superkuh 8y ago
>I don't understand why your upper comment was downvoted There are two reasons I can think of. The first is that it really doesn't have much to do with Snowden's legacy. It's a tangent (even if I didn't start it). That's justifiable downvoting. The second is cognitive dissonance from acknowledging the problems of US government aren't all entirely the result of Trump. It's run of the mill partisan thinking. Often people think by highlighting the same bad behavior of past administrations I'm supporting the current. Not true, but partisans are gonna partisan.