how is this a bad take, lmao. it isnt happening because those guys are his team, and that team is called team liberalism. to note: the czechoslovak communist revolution began through usurping the executive branch, and its a valid way for communists to come to power, if rare. you can even argue nepal is on a similar track.
You're thinking of the military as this force that is blindly, personally loyal to the president. The military is not that politically uniform, and the only foreseeable president a chunk of them might go to bat for is Trump, and there are all sorts of separate problems with thinking Trump could purge the military then become a dictator with the remainder.
Say Sleepy Joe orders an Army unit to enter the capitol building and execute every Republican -- are the hooting chuds in that unit going to say "yes, Mr. President" and do it? If Biden orders a drone strike on the the Florida gubernatorial mansion, is the lib officer (who joined because he thinks the military is a force for good) going to do it? How is the order to effectively start a second civil war going to go over among a rank-and-file that's looking around and wondering who is on which side?
Say Sleepy Joe orders an Army unit to enter the capitol building and execute every Republican -- are the hooting chuds in that unit going to say "yes, Mr. President" and do it?
i mean obviously joe isnt going to do this, as i said, its team liberalism. what i am saying is that if there were, by some arcane technology, a socialist president, then odds are there are many socialists in the military and likely have even infiltrated intelligence agencies to some degree. the move would be to purge the military and do a soft revolution. this isnt a likely scenario for an imperialist country, but this has happened in history to federal governments in the past. whats more likely is a socialist governorship does similar with the police and militia of the state, but that is still unlikely.
Our friend is right here as well. Joe could abuse his powers at least to give him more leverage in negotiations. Instead, he is the capitulator-in-chief.
yeah he has so many powers that he can use but just chooses not to. you only need to flex the pinky of the executive branch to get most things done, so long as it is for liberalism
It's just "political power grows out of a barrel of a gun" or to use a more US-relevant example: "Well, John Marshall has made his decision, but now let him enforce it."
this nerd thinks we care about the pathetic justifications libs make for not being able to do good things
You have a lot of good takes, but these aren't.
how is this a bad take, lmao. it isnt happening because those guys are his team, and that team is called team liberalism. to note: the czechoslovak communist revolution began through usurping the executive branch, and its a valid way for communists to come to power, if rare. you can even argue nepal is on a similar track.
You're thinking of the military as this force that is blindly, personally loyal to the president. The military is not that politically uniform, and the only foreseeable president a chunk of them might go to bat for is Trump, and there are all sorts of separate problems with thinking Trump could purge the military then become a dictator with the remainder.
Say Sleepy Joe orders an Army unit to enter the capitol building and execute every Republican -- are the hooting chuds in that unit going to say "yes, Mr. President" and do it? If Biden orders a drone strike on the the Florida gubernatorial mansion, is the lib officer (who joined because he thinks the military is a force for good) going to do it? How is the order to effectively start a second civil war going to go over among a rank-and-file that's looking around and wondering who is on which side?
i mean obviously joe isnt going to do this, as i said, its team liberalism. what i am saying is that if there were, by some arcane technology, a socialist president, then odds are there are many socialists in the military and likely have even infiltrated intelligence agencies to some degree. the move would be to purge the military and do a soft revolution. this isnt a likely scenario for an imperialist country, but this has happened in history to federal governments in the past. whats more likely is a socialist governorship does similar with the police and militia of the state, but that is still unlikely.
Our friend is right here as well. Joe could abuse his powers at least to give him more leverage in negotiations. Instead, he is the capitulator-in-chief.
yeah he has so many powers that he can use but just chooses not to. you only need to flex the pinky of the executive branch to get most things done, so long as it is for liberalism
This wouldn't happen because America is ruled by a dictatorship of the bourgeoisie not because the "seperations of powers" means anything substantial.
It's just "political power grows out of a barrel of a gun" or to use a more US-relevant example: "Well, John Marshall has made his decision, but now let him enforce it."
"I'm not going to enforce a law" is pretty far from "I'm going to have the military shoot the Supreme Court."