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Yeah. I wonder what the point of laws and the Constitution even is. President was never meant to have nearly this much power, and now not only do they have the power to break the law/constitution, there's not any accountability after they do it. You could kind of make an argument that the president needs emergency powers (I'd usually disagree with it, but you could argue it) but there is simply no excuse for damage being done while breaking the law and then literally nothing is required to repair the damage.
The text of the constitution sort of assumes that Americans wouldn't elect a person who cannot be trusted at all.
The people who wrote and signed the constitution, on the other hand, believed that people would try to seize personal power, and many even believed that George Washington would try to make himself king.
It’s more like the constitution was written by wealthy landowners for wealthy landowners, and the idea of the common people being able to hold the rich to account was downright undesirable, so it wasn’t encoded into law.
It's also written by people in an agrarian culture so different than our culture today. The fact that it is still relevant at all is amazing. Like this is around the time germ theory was first proposed. Imagine if we still relied on a single document as the guiding principle for medicine established before germ theory was widely accepted.
There are faults with the founding fathers and their documents, but it amazes me how well the constitution has endured, not as an important document, but as a relevant document addressing issues we have today.
And, I’d venture a pretty good guess, if the founding fathers came back to today they’d be shocked that we’re still using their system (with a few modifications) and haven’t overthrown the government for something that suited the modern times.
Imagine if a democrat had ever decided the rules are for chumps and want bananas making all sorts of changes expecting no one to enforce anything. The White House would have been detonated from orbit.
They need a serious update.
If there's one thing Trump is doing, is that he's turning a lot of heads because he's making a whole lot of firsts. He's a demonstration, not since the Bushes/Reagan/Nixon days, as to what happens when an aging, pedophilia-crazed individual with dementia and a lack of empathy and respect for others is president.
When Trump wasn't going to answer for the 350k deaths during the pandemic and how he dodged impeachment twice - I threw up my arms.
People can rally and call for jail-time all they want for the people in power to answer for. The reality is, as we've seen over and over, is that they will never see jail or any penalty. Dick Cheney got to die comfortably. Donald Rumsfeld got to die comfortably. George W Bush is going to die comfortably. Mitch McConnell is soon on his way to die comfortably.
Names of people I've mentioned, who've committed war crimes and acts that would blatantly spell Treasonous all over, who've got off cleanly. Trump, Vance, Pence and others will be no different.
God, fuck this country twenty times over.