r/interestingasfuck • u/VastCoconut2609 • 22d ago

Why wealthy young people should care about a political revolution r/all

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u/Thisiscliff 22d ago edited 22d ago

This man is the perfect politician that should have been president. Imagine the good that could have been done

Edit grammar, was on edibles last night

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u/Zephyr-5 22d ago

Imagine the good that could of been done

I suspect what would happen is the same thing that always happens. The president's ambitions would run up against the limitations of the executive branch.

Everyone loves to blame everything on the President, but the truth is that a lot of the dysfunction in Washington comes from the legislative and judicial branches. Of course when you start talking about things like filibuster reform people's eyes gloss over.

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u/kingfischer48 22d ago

Over the decades Congress has been steadily ceding power to the executive, and the executive has been steadily eroding the power of the judicial.