That ship has sailed. It’s probably only now starting to dawn on some of them that they’ve effectively abdicated their powers and they’ll never get them back.
Nothing will meaningfully improve until the rich fear for their lives
A lesson societies keep taking longer and longer to relearn between revolutions. We’re all too comfortable with our bread and circuses to bother revolting. Not until we literally can’t get food, water, and / or shelter will we decide it’s finally high time we made examples of some of these colossal assholes.
The idea that Trump can start wars as he sees fit is a frightening one, but I’m not sure that in practice Congress is capable of making these decisions (especially with regard to unconventional military actions as opposed to traditional wars). It is simply too dysfunctional an institution, although I suppose institutional paralysis would lead to the outcome that isolationists and pacifists want.
That’s how it was meant to work. The president didn’t get to order wars like this until after the 1940s.
Congress should only allow the president to act alone only if the homeland is directly attacked by another nation. Not a terrorist from another country, bona fide military forces. And maybe a handful of limited exceptions that directly impact US soil.
Otherwise we should deliberate and take time to think before getting involved in foreign wars. We have no right to try to police the world and it’s a massive waste of resources
Especially considering that the Iraq situation has no urgency. It was developing for at least a decade. There was and is more than enough time to go the official route.
Too late. We’re already in a dictatorship.
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