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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsIt has finally dawned on me that a significant number of people in this country....
... really do want a much stronger executive branch, including members of congress. Why?????

NCDem47
(2,659 posts)A strong authoritarian will be happy to oblige.
underpants
(189,686 posts)ananda
(31,431 posts)With Trump, Musk, and the GOP they can see their hate validated
every day.
jalan48
(14,778 posts)brush
(59,419 posts)will get old fast as the firings and cuts rise...not to mention him threatening military action against Canada, Mexico, Greenland and Panama.
usonian
(16,854 posts)This gave congress a reputation of being a waste of space, and since they granted insane executive power post 9/11, thats where the action is.
Not to mention Schumer-Gate ceding even more power to President Musk.
Count the wars we have had since WWII, undeclared by congress. Not a one was declared, and off we go again, so that a bunch of cosplay generals can get their lulz from killing heathens.
LAS14
(15,117 posts)Did you not understand that a shutdown would give the president way more power?
usonian
(16,854 posts)But the net effect was to cede more power away from congress as law, and not by backdoor means.
Laws "validate".
milestogo
(20,118 posts)If Obama or Biden were trying to amass all of this power they would be totally freaked out by it.
RJ-MacReady
(297 posts)With right wingers. This incessant need to have some figure to worship. Religion trump whatever. They love being slavishly obedient to those they worship.
NCDem47
(2,659 posts)LeftinOH
(5,503 posts)These same folks insisted that every legal roadblock available should be used to curb Obama or Biden.
These same people also demand "fairness" in politics.
C_U_L8R
(46,899 posts)And by that they mean 'have domination over you and everyone like you'.
doc03
(37,634 posts)many of us liked to have Obama for another term or more.
(assuming you're serious)
The current dictator is doing more damage in 3 months than could be imagined in a 4 year term. Rumpco doesn't need another term.
Don't want any dictators. Want Democracy back.
yardwork
(66,041 posts)I wanted another Democrat to begin a new term in the White House and keep moving things forward.
yardwork
(66,041 posts)That's it, basically.
Prairie Gates
(4,691 posts)