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The US have a system where the president has the power to start a nuclear war. Consequently, the presidency is an supremely powerful office only one party can c
by rebuilder 7y ago
The US have a system where the president has the power to start a nuclear war. Consequently, the presidency is an supremely powerful office only one party can control at a time. This is a winner-takes-all system where the stable optimum is a two-party oligarchy.
- NikolaeVarius 7y agoThe authority to order a nuclear strike does not mean unilateral ability to cause it. This power is almost irrelevant to the issues concerning the current "duopoly" right now. Remember how no-one, not even the republican party, wanted Donald Trump to win, but somehow he did?
- unishark 7y agoThe presidency is one branch of three in the US federal govt, each with supreme power in their particular roles. The primarily powers of the presidency relates to foreign policy, as opposed to the congress which writes the laws and controls the budget. So an example of a power regarding who controls military capabilities doesn't prove the president is supremely powerful in a discussion about writing laws. Unless you imagine the president will use the military domestically like Caesar to create a dictatorship (which people keep predicting for pretty much every single president, yet hasn't happened).