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Originally Posted by dc_dux
Our governmental system of checks and balances, and accountability to the people, ingeniously envisioned by the framers of the Constitition, and with all its warts and shortcomings (particularly int the last six years) has worked excedingly well for 200+ years. It will continue to work if reasonable minds prevail, despite the doomsday scenarios painted by self-righteous ideologues on both ends of the politcal spectrum.
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That's the problem dc, it hasn't worked for the last 140 years. In fact, the only time checks and balances actually work is when there's been a deadlock between both parties, i.e. dems in the house and reps in the senate. They do the least amount of damage that way. Then you have the judiciary, which for the last 160 years, has been tailoring their constitutional decisions to fit their ideology for social engineering. We haven't had an honest to goodness representative government since the civil war ended.
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