I may have missed it, but has anyone else ever heard of any of the crazy 5#!+ #Trump is threatening as appropriate political conduct in any of the US founding documents?
For anyone who has followed the Republican circus south of the border, the link below is just a summary, it's important reading for anyone else:
Regarding the content linked in the previous post - how is it that the US government has to even consider passing legislation to potentially protect the opposition and its citizens from the head of state!?
For that matter, who ever thought we might need a federal political framework here in Canada to prevent us from going backwards!?
@Perspective well, it comes down to the separation of powers at the core to the US system.
It's not that the US government has to protect the opposition, but rather that the opposition is protected so long as legislation isn't passed to enable threatening them.
Under this system the president can't act without authority. IF there has been legislation enabling such attacks on the opposition, then that's the heart of the problem and the legislation needs to be reformed.
But mainly, Trump's a moron who's spouting nonsense that his followers, sadly, believe in part because we don't tend to call it out as nonsensical rantings and false promises.
@Hyolobrika Yeah, they should, but we live in reality where a whole lot of people won't, so we have to approach reality with realistic solutions to the problems.
I think it's noteworthy that the designers of the US system were adamant about this, and so that's why things like checks and balances in the US system are there specifically because we can't rely on people doing the right things.
As they said, if all men were angels...
