Thesis: The executive branch is becoming too powerful.

Antithesis: If that ever happened, the white-collar desk jockeys at the IRS would rise in revolt against authoritarianism.

Synthesis: Democracies cannot be authoritarian as long as they pass the us-foreign-policy test.

  • Sickos [they/them, it/its]
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    4 months ago

    Many people are saying it. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6del%27s_Loophole

    (Not that it would take any "loophole", obviously)

    • Sickos [they/them, it/its]
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      4 months ago

      Of course, when he tried to explain it, another man told him to shut the hell up.

      That man's name?

      Albert Einstein.

    • edge [he/him]
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      4 months ago

      That’s not even a loophole. The Constitution is purposefully amendable (as any constitution should be), which inherently means the system of governance is amendable (again as any constitution should be).