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Of course that's appealing when it's something you want, but what would think of it if the Republicans win the House, Senate, and Presidency again (as they did
by leereeves 3y ago
Of course that's appealing when it's something you want, but what would think of it if the Republicans win the House, Senate, and Presidency again (as they did in 2016) and do something similar?
For example, they might create an Administration of Land Management with authority over all extraction rights on federal land, funded by fees paid for those rights, and with a director the President cannot remove except for cause.
And it wouldn't be possible for Democrats to change that until they too won the House, Senate, and Presidency at the same time.
A government full of agencies like that would make elections mostly irrelevant, and things would change only when one party won everything.
- MarkMarine 3y agoSomeone said it earlier, but this horror you’re describing is the case in plenty of developed countries.
- leereeves 3y agoMany of those countries have parliamentary systems where the chief executive is always from the majority party (or coalition) in parliament, so they never have the divided governments that are so common in the US. Many also have a House of Lords or Bundesrat or something similar that is not elected by the people, whose purpose is to make the government less democratic. We should not try to be more like those governments. Of those that remain, how many have agencies not subject to the chief executive like the CFPB?