Who’s running the country? That question became terrifyingly urgent this weekend when the President of the United States admitted he was preparing to send US military forces into an American …
First of all, how is a site named “techdirt” always hitting the nail on the head with political commentary?
Should the United States survive this, there is going to need to be a serious reckoning over how we fix our institutions to protect against such horrifying abuses.
The problem is that our government was designed to put ambitious people in competing roles. Certain powers are controlled by Congress, others by the President, and still others by the Judiciary. Each branch has checks against the power of the other, and two of the branches ultimately have to answer to the people in elections. They assumed that each branch would seek to make sure that the other branches stayed in line, to preserve their own power.
But what happens when one movement co-opts all three branches, and now the branches refuse to rein each other in? Our Constitution has no answer for this. If any other President has pulled what Trump pulled today with his generals, he would have gotten impeached on the spot. Trump gets away with it, because the Congress and the Courts let him.
First of all, how is a site named “techdirt” always hitting the nail on the head with political commentary?
Because at nearly 30 years old it’s literally one of the oldest news sites on the Internet…
And they expanded from just tech news decades ago?
Like, their CEO (who wrote this article) is the one that coined the term “Streisand Effect”…
They’re kind of a big deal outside of just tech and have been for a long time.
Our Constitution has no answer for this.
It has several:
- We vote them out of office
- Constitutional amendments
- Constitutional convention
All of them require We the People to be actively engaged in the process.
