But this is what happens when a nation that was built on the idea of "fuck monarchies" ends up treating the presidential election like a super bowl and gives way too much power to the POTUS.
That's a key point I think a lot of people miss. This country is not supposed to be a Presidential executive decree dictatorship, or even have a federal legislature control everything. The states are supposed to hold a huge part of the power. Unfortunately, that started going away long ago and took a huge jump leading up to the Civil War.
I'm not sure when executive orders first started going nuts. I noticed it the most with Obama but I don't know in previous history or not. Wherever this concept of "Congress obstructs everything I want, so I will just ignore them and order it anyway" is a big part of what leads to be believe the USA is doomed and these efforts are just buying time.
FDR is a perfect example of revisionist history or whatever you call it--the concept of history favoring the winner. The idea I always got from school about FDR was always very positive. You know he saved us all with the most illustrious New Deal, only President to win three terms, saved us from Hitler, etc.
Instead everything I've learned in the last 5 years or so about him, he was horrible for the country and perhaps one of the key reasons a lot of the shit we are in today even exists.
Four. He basically got himself set up as president for life. It was only after he died that the two-term limit was made an actual law rather than the gentleman's agreement it had been before, to prevent it from happening again. Look up the 22nd amendment.
That's a key point I think a lot of people miss. This country is not supposed to be a Presidential executive decree dictatorship, or even have a federal legislature control everything. The states are supposed to hold a huge part of the power. Unfortunately, that started going away long ago and took a huge jump leading up to the Civil War.
I'm not sure when executive orders first started going nuts. I noticed it the most with Obama but I don't know in previous history or not. Wherever this concept of "Congress obstructs everything I want, so I will just ignore them and order it anyway" is a big part of what leads to be believe the USA is doomed and these efforts are just buying time.
FDR is a perfect example of revisionist history or whatever you call it--the concept of history favoring the winner. The idea I always got from school about FDR was always very positive. You know he saved us all with the most illustrious New Deal, only President to win three terms, saved us from Hitler, etc.
Instead everything I've learned in the last 5 years or so about him, he was horrible for the country and perhaps one of the key reasons a lot of the shit we are in today even exists.
Four. He basically got himself set up as president for life. It was only after he died that the two-term limit was made an actual law rather than the gentleman's agreement it had been before, to prevent it from happening again. Look up the 22nd amendment.