alt Hacker NewsYeah but the US was never a full democracy. Part of the problem with the US is that the president has way too much power to begin with.
If trump was elected prime minister of Sweden, he wouldn't have been able to do half the stuff he's done.
Yeah but the US was never a full democracy. Part of the problem with the US is that the president has way too much power to begin with.
If trump was elected prime minister of Sweden, he wouldn't have been able to do half the stuff he's done.
The president isn't supposed to have that much power in the US either. The federal government in general wasn't supposed to have much power; power is supposed to be reserved to the states except for specific scenarios enumerated in our constitution. Unfortunately, a century of blatantly illegal power grabs by the federal government, combined with Congress (which should've acted as a check upon the president) willingly giving their power over to the president, we are in a pretty bad spot. However, if it happened to us it could happen to any country. At the end of the day the constitution of a nation is only meaningful to the extent that people will actually enforce it.