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Your looking at it from today's perspective, but these kinds of rules need to be looked at from the perspective of worst case scenario - don't limit it to the c
by ffsm8 2y ago
Your looking at it from today's perspective, but these kinds of rules need to be looked at from the perspective of worst case scenario - don't limit it to the current candidates, think about what a future president in... Say 30yrs is gonna do.
The weihmaher republik was a pretty good democracy back in the day. It just gave the leader certain rights, and suddenly Hitler became the dictator, creating Nazi Germany.
Everyone needs a limit to their power, otherwise they'll be able to essentially flip the board and declare themselves emperor.
Please don't project what I said here onto trump, Biden or Obama. None of them are on that level. It's just possible that a future president is that morally bankrupt, especially if social issues continue to accrue/inequality keeps growing unchecked.
- golergka 2y ago> The weihmaher republik was a pretty good democracy back in the day. No it wasn't. It had armed gangs, both right and left-wing, fighting in the streets, completely failed monetary policy and sky-high level of corruption. The republic just started to kind of getting back to normal for a few years at the end of 1920s, and then was wrecked with Great Depression.
- lenerdenator 2y ago> It had armed gangs, both right and left-wing, fighting in the streets See: 2020 in the US. > completely failed monetary policy See printing off a lot of money to deal with an emergency because the US hasn't had a meaningful conversation about revenue since 1993 when George HW Bush went back on "read my lips" > sky-high level of corruption You have people on this court accepting vacations and gifts from people who are wishing to push a certain political viewpoint on the court. They just ruled this was okay, too, by neutering a federal anti-bribery statute. Money is considered protected political speech. There are a lot of parallels between Weimar Germany and the current state of the USA. More than anyone should feel comfortable with.
- ffgjgf1 2y agoTo be fair there is still a very long way to go if you look at the actual details. > There are a lot of parallels between Weimar Germany and the current state of the USA It might be dysfunctional but largely in very different ways (unless you view it extremely superficially).
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- ffgjgf1 2y ago> It had armed gangs, both right and left-wing, fighting in the streets And even moderate ones. > completely failed monetary policy IIRC during the period between 1923 and the Great Depression (i.e. majority of its existence) it was relatively stable.
- bonzini 2y ago> Please don't project what I said here onto trump, Biden or Obama Technically the US is in this predicament because one of them wanted his vice president to not name a successor, after mentioning several times during his presidency that he wanted a third term. Just because he's a bad wannabe dictator, it doesn't mean he's not a wannabe dictator. He even said so himself, "just for one day".
- ffgjgf1 2y ago> It just gave the leader certain rights, and suddenly Hitler became the dictator, creating Nazi Germany Not it didn’t give him those rights. The parliament (including moderate parties) explicitly granted him the power to so whatever he wanted after the nazis were already in power. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enabling_Act_of_1933 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enabling_Act_of_1933