America’s system of checks and balances might struggle to contain a despot
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Re: America’s system of checks and balances might struggle to contain a despot
#2When more than half of one of the checks firmly backs the despot of course it'll struggle.
Re: America’s system of checks and balances might struggle to contain a despot
#3plz stop, gop.
Re: America’s system of checks and balances might struggle to contain a despot
#4might?
Re: America’s system of checks and balances might struggle to contain a despot
#5Timing is suspect. We've known this for a long time.
Re: America’s system of checks and balances might struggle to contain a despot
#6plz stop, gop.
man, it is pretty disheartening that the majority seems to think it is good that the gop is backing the despot.
Re: America’s system of checks and balances might struggle to contain a despot
#7Timing is suspect. We've known this for a long time.
How is it suspect? We now have a president with authoritarian tendencies, it makes sense to be worrying about this now.
Re: America’s system of checks and balances might struggle to contain a despot
#8plz stop, gop.
man, it is pretty disheartening that the majority seems to think it is good that the gop is backing the despot.
You're not being downvoted on content, and downvotes are not disagreements. That's not a good HN comment; there's no constructive response to be made to that comment.
In particular, from the guidelines:
> Please avoid introducing classic flamewar topics unless you have something genuinely new to say about them.
I would say that politics is the classic flamewar topic. And your comment certainly didn't add anything new or even interesting.
> Please resist commenting about being downvoted. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading.
The comment I'm responding to is an indirect example of this.
Re: America’s system of checks and balances might struggle to contain a despot
#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
man, it is pretty disheartening that the majority seems to think it is good that the gop is backing the despot.
You're not being downvoted on content, and downvotes are not disagreements. That's not a good HN comment; there's no constructive response to be made to that comment. In particular, from the guidelines: > Please avoid introducing classic flamewar topics unless you have something genuinely new to say about them. I would say that politics is the classic flamewar topic. And your comment certainly didn't add anything new…
Actually, on HN, downvoting can represent disagreement. Usually, flagging is for abuse.
Re: America’s system of checks and balances might struggle to contain a despot
#10In 1933 few people expected that 12 years later, no one would admit to being in the 43% that voted for the Nazi party. But in their defense they had no idea what the future would hold, the economy was a disaster, the country downtrodden, and the Party kept the worst of their ideas rather quiet in the big cities. The problem here is different, but we still don't know where this will go, while we can see what was done so far we don't know if this is mild compared to the future or the worst is done.
Having said that, the time to deal with a despot of some kind is before it's too late, the problem is knowing when that is and not waiting until you can't do anything any more. Our system here was an amazing design for the 1780s but they couldn't know all the problems that would only appear 240 years later. At the start they weren't even sure it would last to the 2nd president.