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Good. Make Congress do its job. Erode the executive until we're not frothing at the mouth every 4 years worrying about who will be "in charge," and instead focu
by debacle 2y ago
Good. Make Congress do its job. Erode the executive until we're not frothing at the mouth every 4 years worrying about who will be "in charge," and instead focusing on the actions of our congressional representatives.
- Spivak 2y agoSo we froth at the mouth every two years instead? I get the argument but I'm not really sure this is going to help in the way you want it.
- debacle 2y agoAbsolutely. I have 400 times more control over who my congressman is than who the president is.
- jliptzin 2y agoBut your congressman has less than 1/400 the power of the President.
- asdff 2y agoRealistically the president doesn't do all that much to affect the course of the country relative to congress.
- pelorat 2y agoTrump literally ruled by executive order.
- asdff 2y agoAnd how much did anything change outside your window as a result of that?
- Invictus0 2y agoPretending like total control of foreign policy isn't the greatest power of all
- asdff 2y agoEven trump was on a tight leash with that and basically just carried the old torch like every president does. Oh I guess he had too much lunch with putin but its not like he took us out of NATO kind of like the conservatives in the UK did with the EU and brexit. A bunch of talk but the same old neoliberal walk we've been doing for decades.
- Invictus0 2y agohttps://www.cfr.org/timeline/trumps-foreign-policy-moments https://www.cfr.org/timeline/trumps-foreign-policy-moments I feel like you may not be remembering his presidency properly
- free_bip 2y agoThis won't "make" Congress do anything. They'll continue sitting on their asses because they face no consequences for their (in)actions.