You have a very uninformed view of parliamentary systems if you think the US is in any way close to that. - in parliamentary systems, minister posts are assign

You have a very uninformed view of parliamentary systems if you think the US is in any way close to that. - in parliamentary systems, minister posts are assigned to elected representatives. There is no prime minister that can just gift their buddies a ministerial post if they weren't elected into parliament. - most parliaments have an upper and lower house, and prime ministers usually only control the lower. - the prime minister itself is not directly elected into that post, which means they have no greater authority than any other member of parliament save for the authority granted by their peers. That puts a big damper on many dictatorial aspirations.