Not really, even with these idiots in control, it's not a dictatorship. If the military and police decide to overthrow the government we will be a dictatorship for an undeterminable length of time. That is the only drawback to that potential course of events.
@JoeyFoxx I love to see your list of the five and six factions. Republicans have the Rand Paul libertarians, the religious right 6 or 7 old fiscal conservatives hiding in a bunker somewhere. Not sure of the other two. Hell I would say the Democrats have about an infinite number. As Will Rodgers said “ I am not part of an organized party, I am a Democrat”. @JoeyFoxx
@monte3 These Moronic Muppets calling themselves "democrats" now are not even remotely close to the democrat Will Rogers was. They aren't democrats at all, they have just hijacked the title.
@puck61 And 45 of of the 50 Republicans are hiding behind a contrived interpretation of the Constitution so they don't have to hold Bunker Boy accountable for staging an insurrection.
It's not that fucking hard.
If you actively support either party right now, you are not interested in what's good for the United States.
End of fucking story.
I need to use "fucking" more.. or find another word to indicate how disappointed I am in people.
@PrivateHell Your President dictates all policy and you have lots of police agencies, most might think that's close to being a dictatorship! Don't use the modern idiom, use the classical, in your realisation!
@PevRusMad as I said "rhetoric". Name one modern 1st world country where the leader/government does not dictate policy and that has no police. That is not how a dictator has ever been defined.
But, the checks and balances between the branches are getting weaker.
Congress continues to make procedural tweaks that empowers the majority party. (In case anyone asks, both parties are guilty of this). This, in turn, requires the minority party to align closely with the President of the same party. It also emboldens a President to operate unchallenged when supported by the majority party.
@JoeyFoxx Wouldn't it be a good idea if the members of the Suppreme Court had to be elected by a 2/3 majority in the US Senate? ==> end of partisanship.
As far as I can see, tensions are running high in the US, there is a clash of cultures, with extremely different sets of values. Apparently it is becoming increasingly difficult to even talk to someone from the other side of the fence. As a result, the number of marriages between a Republican and a Democrat is on the decrease, which gives rise to concern.
No. But, the way our potus praises dictators and admires the way in which dictators people blinded follow and obey them, it is evident that he would like to be one. Given the opportunity I am confident he would gladly step into the role of president for life
No it is not, you only have to look back as far as the mid terms to see that. My serious question is: how many people would like it to become one!? In a time when both sides vilify each other I wonder. When true believers abound how deep is the commitment to democracy? I wonder and worry more than a bit.
@BobbieT I'm not a big fan of Mr. Trump (and I am European, so it isn't any of my business), but associating the United States of America with a dictatorship means downplaying the horrors of a tyranny.
No. Luckily the democrats aren't in the wheelhouse. The market is way up- unemployment way down. We are regaining strength, and the wall is going up as we speak. Trump is definitely the best president this country has seen in a very long time, and all the pus pocket proglodytes want to do is destroy all the progress the Trump administration has made.
@helenS @monte3 Yes! I am very serious. It would be better to have Trump as president for life, than to have leftists in control of this country. If the left was to have the lions share of power, they would soon be passing out 'poop maps' for every city in the United States. The left is morally and spiritually bankrupt. As much as they would destroy our infrastructure and material/ financial management , they would also destroy intangible resources as well. It is a potentially deadly ideology. Look at Chicago and Detroit, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Sacramento, Seattle, etc , and then look at Nagasaki and Hiroshima and you can plainly see that "progressivism" is more destructive than nuclear bombs. If it were within my power, I would stop at nothing to cure the world of this horrid ideology.
[@puck61You say that liberals were good and acknowledge the countries debt to them , but now they have turned evil. I am seriously asking WHERE you think that happened. Where do you see the path changing. I am guessing Vietnam Nam, ken Burn’s PBS documentary makes the point that the Vietnam Nam split between protesters and those is favor is America’s second civil war. And in a fit of idiocy the Democrat party did have its McGovern moment. But I claim that dispute still being the party of the young we are not those people. Obama’s ACA was, I claim , in the same spirt as FDR’s Social Security.
@puck61 while I ageee that the unbalanced extreme ideologies of Bernie and Warren are toxic, it’s a far leap to suggest that we’d be better off with an incoherent egomaniac as the alternative.
He has made us weaker as a country.
He’s not even a Republican. His policies make no sense. He is erratic and irrational.
Frankly, I don’t know why people support him. It’s literally impossible to know where he stands other than his constant reminder that anything good that happens is because of him and anything bad that happens is someone else’s fault.
It’s certainly changed from two different candidates with their own platforms and people discuss their differences to see why one supports the other etc And moved to if you support this side the only possible reason is bigotry and if you support this side you must be a moron. When civil conversation and the exchange of ideas ceases... it’s clear trouble is coming.
