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> Weak country Weak constitution I have to agree with this in whole. It's like looking at the EU now and wondering, how did they not see this glaring dependency before now? Both the petro energy source and the US military support were never as secure as it seems they were assumed to be. Here in the US, we're still sitting on a constitution from 250 years ago. Apparently no one though an incoming presidential administ…
Founding documents are worthless if you don't care to honor them. EU might have more modern legislation but even there the far right is starting to realize when they are in power they can generally ignore the legislation or work quickly to dismantle it. Trump showed and emboldened them, tech bros are providing funding and oligarchs are steadily gaining power. It's quickly coming from the east and only reason EU might…
But I would also say, the only impediment to executive overreach has been the constitution, as little as that impediment has been.
Albeit the current supreme court has also stretched the interpretation beyond all previous bounds.
The US certainly needs a modern revised constitution, but I don't see the DNC as having the vision or the balls to accomplish such a thing.
We're pretty much fucked here...