What is your worst fear?

calicuz · 56-60, M

@sarabee1995

I haven't had time to look into everyone of those Executive Orders, but if they do not violate the Constitution, or violate the law, those Executive orders can stand, but not all Executive Orders stand. Sometimes a President can talk a big talk and say he's going implement an Executive Order but never sign it.
We must stop listening to political rhetoric and judge a President on what he actually does. If a President signs an Executive Order that violates the law, then he should ne prosecuted.

Elessar · 26-30, M

@calicuz @sarabee1995 I don't know if it's the same issue we have here, but here usually executive orders / PM decrees happen because the parliament (in your case congress) is in a quasi permanent stalemate, so they become essentially the only way to move the country forward

The average person is also too clueless to figure out that they should be exceptional, and not the norm, and that we should vote in order to have an effective parliament instead of caring only who sits on the PM / presidential chair, but apparently that's too much to ask. Also signing executive orders will make this or that PM / president look "effective", reinforcing the cycle, so there's very little interest into fixing the issue.

This happens in a country where (for now, and maybe not for long) we elect just the parliament and not the PM, so I can imagine it being even worse where you vote for the individual person too.

calicuz · 56-60, M

@Elessar

Ours is more about checks and balances. The President keeps Congress in check with Veto power on bills, and Congress keeps the White House in check with voting on bills. An Executive Order does bypass Congress for a vote, but the Executive Order can be challenged in the Supreme Court if it violates law.