What is your worst fear?

@calicuz

Yes. This collapse will do us ALL in - left, right and everyone else.

@calicuz mine too

@SW-User @BizSuitStacy

Let us remember the words of Christ: “Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation; and every city or house divided against itself shall not stand”

And let us remember that old adage: "Every kingdom must fall"

@calicuz

All it takes now is one - ONE! - mad man to push the first nuclear button 😧

@SW-User It would take far less than that to bring us down. But there are many of us at the gate keeping watch. 😐

@calicuz It's definitely avoidable. It being "inevitable" is pure propaganda spun by the very actors who want to see it fall, because they have no other chances to prevail besides destroying our countries from the inside.

@Elessar So very true.

@Elessar @sarabee1995

I disagree, I hear no actors calling for an end to, or even ratifying the Constitution for anything they believe in.

@calicuz You hear no actors calling for an end to Western Democratic forms of government with respect for individual rights and liberties??????

I think you need to get your ears cleaned. 🤔

@sarabee1995

Ok, who said what, I really don't follow the celebrity news.

@Elessar

Thank you for saying that. Americans don't realize that a sitting President is more of a threat to the Constitution than any celebrity could be.

@calicuz What has celebrity news got to do with anything. Nobody watches less or cares less about celebrity / pop culture than I. But there are those across the world stage who seek the downfall of western civilization.

As for our presidents (and what we Americans do or don't know about them), they have been exercising extra-constitutional authority for decades. I've written about that on here a few times.

@sarabee1995

Yes, never stop speaking the truth, especially about our government, but what do you mean by "extra Constitutional authority?"

@calicuz One example: Presidents since the nineties have been circumventing Congress by abusing the executive order authority. Every single one of them.

@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.

@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.

@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.