A Slippery Slope to Dictatorship?
It's frightening how the Executive Order has replaced the Rule of the People.
Laws enacted by the 535 people's representatives in Congress are virtually irrelevant. The President - charged with enforcing the laws - now either ignores them or makes his own. Pandora's box has been opened.
And there's nothing we can do about it.
The checks and balances on the Executive branch have been compromised. Permanently, I'm afraid. Those checks have historically included impeachment, funding, and and nominations. Impeachment is out of the question - it's too political, especially with a biased media. House leaders have gone on record they will not use funding as leverage. And disrupting nominations are countered with a Presidential fiat, as in, if you block so-and-so for this post, then I'll an EO ban on bullets (as in AR-15).
This is scary. There is no control on the Presidency.
I think our current President actually does love our country. It's just that he is imposing his own vision on it, for better or worse. I do not think it's for better.
And what of a future President? One who may not have America's best interests in mind?
He has now been shown the way.
Laws enacted by the 535 people's representatives in Congress are virtually irrelevant. The President - charged with enforcing the laws - now either ignores them or makes his own. Pandora's box has been opened.
And there's nothing we can do about it.
The checks and balances on the Executive branch have been compromised. Permanently, I'm afraid. Those checks have historically included impeachment, funding, and and nominations. Impeachment is out of the question - it's too political, especially with a biased media. House leaders have gone on record they will not use funding as leverage. And disrupting nominations are countered with a Presidential fiat, as in, if you block so-and-so for this post, then I'll an EO ban on bullets (as in AR-15).
This is scary. There is no control on the Presidency.
I think our current President actually does love our country. It's just that he is imposing his own vision on it, for better or worse. I do not think it's for better.
And what of a future President? One who may not have America's best interests in mind?
He has now been shown the way.
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