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And this is why repubs want to shut down the Dept. of Education. We already stopped teaching Civics/Government in schools a long time ago, which has led us to this current level of ignorance about how our government works and what powers the president does and doesnā€™t have. For the last year(s) Iā€™ve seen comments demanding Biden do this or that thing he has no authority to do (even thinking he can order other countriesā€™ leaders to do what he wants!). They think it means he just doesnā€™t want those things to happen.

They think POTUS is supposed to be a king who just has to decree whatever he wants and it happens, no matter what the other 2 equal branches of government do. They want a king, dammit! So they voted for a king. They elected Trump who will throw out the Constitution and be a king for them. Enjoy having a king, suckers.

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There does seem to be a disparity between what biden can do and trump can do though doesnt there.

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When government is functioning as it was designed, the checks and balances work, and a POTUS who does not respect the law would be checked, impeached, and/or removed. But when an entire party that is in power not only refuses to act as a check, but willingly does his bidding, then the law-breaking POTUS is effectively a king.

We have examples in the past, like Nixon, who was forced to resign under threat of impeachment by his own party. We have an example today, of the president of South Korea, cancelling his declaration of marital law under pressure from both the opposition and his own party.

The Constitution is an agreement, governing with the consent of the governed. Once the majority of those in power refuse to abide by the Constitution and rule of law, then it is no longer worth the paper itā€™s written on and we no longer have a functioning democratic republic. That is where we are.

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Isnt biden ignoring popular will to back israel an example of democrats doing the same thing? Everyoneā€™s acting like democrats follow all the rules and republicans break them all.

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There is, for sure, but that is a bit like arguing there is a disparity in what a good driver and bad driver can get away with.

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The good driver gets away with more because people will give them the benefit of the doubt, and they can put up a front that they do care, whether its true or not.

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Thatā€™s just simple entropy. Itā€™s far easier to be destructive than it is to be constructive.

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He could go destroy union regulations making different kinds of labour action illegal.

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If you listen and believe the incoherent ramblings and lies of one particularly large, wrinkly, and orange anal sphincter and his allied gang of extortionists and sexual predators, sure.

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