You know people have been talking about the expansion of the power of the executive but this hasn't taken the form of making the president more able to just do what he wants damn the torpedoes, it's just allowed him to make war in ways that benefits the entrenched political and economic interests of America without having to consult the electorate.
Trump for all his rhetoric about changing things just was more brazen about doing things that benefited the elites, and more brazen about doing the war on terror harder. And now Biden is taking up much that Trump did like selling weapons to the Saudis, brutalizing the border, rattling the sabers with China, cause that's just what America's entrenched interests want.
The only only thing the electorate decide is whether we're meaner or nicer to the blacks and the gays. Bernie tried to make the seemingly small change of shifting focus onto the actual people in America and their needs but this was so unspeakable to America's entrenched interests that the idea couldn't even be entertained in public debate.
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Originally Posted by J.R.R. Tolkien
There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.
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