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America has self correction and self repair mechanisms at the highest level of their government, so it won't completely melt down if it has a bad president. I

• jfengel 3y ago
  It does have "checks and balances", to be sure, but I don't trust them to self-correct. On the one side you have the Supreme Court, two-thirds of whom were nominated by the same political party. Their views were vetted for party loyalty before the nomination, and that vetting has become increasingly stringent. I do not trust the Court to fix a melt-down by a President who himself named a third of them -- which we had and may soon have again. On the other hand we have the Congress, who is almost clinically incapable of anything. This law is part of a budget that was required months ago; the government itself has been operating on duct tape and baling wire. This is a rare instance where the Congress was able to act in a way that protects itself from its own incapacity. And frankly I don't put much stock in it. I'm quite certain that a future President who chose to withdraw from NATO would simply do so and concoct an excuse why Congress' inaction was in fact consent. The Congress has practically no power to force its will. It could potentially impeach and convict, but that has not happened even once. And even if it did, a President having a "melt down" could simply ignore it. We do have self-correction, in the form of a vast government bureaucracy that keeps functioning even when its top leadership is a complete nutcase. But that has been increasingly presented as a conspiracy in itself, by the Presidential candidate most likely to have a melt-down. If he wins, it's because tens of millions of Americans support is belief that the government itself is a conspiracy against them.