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Martin Eden

(15,923 posts)
8. "We have no mechanism to deal with someone who simply ignores the bounds of law and decency."
Wed May 20, 2026, 08:29 AM
May 20

Yes we do -- Congress and the Supreme Court.

America's Founders created three separate branches of government as checks & balances in the belief that each branch would protect its own power, thereby ensuring that no single branch could run roughshod over our government. Power would not be vested in a single entity. The president could not become a king. The free press, outside the government, would inform The People enfranchised to vote malefactors out of office.

But the Founders did not foresee, or could not prevent, the inherently corrupt system of campaign finance in which political careers depend on vast sums of money provided by the malefactors of great wealth who increasingly own the "free press" and use it to misinform The People and turn them against each other.

They did not foresee modern mass electronic media and the internet with algorithims and artificial intelligence becoming tools of oligarchs who corrupt not only the members of Congress they bankroll but the judges they place on the Supreme Court.

They did not foresee or could not prevent a binary system of two political parties, with one serving the interests of a small minority controlling vast wealth & power while the majority of people struggle to get by -- programmed to vote against their own best interests.

Instead of three branches checking and balancing each other, the members thereof have become accomplices serving the oligarchy.

The man who would be king is a symptom, rather than the cause, of an electoral system corrupted by concentrated wealth. The mechanism to correct systemic imbalance and corruption -- free and fair elections -- is now imperiled by voter suppression, gerrymandering, and a president with an army of ICE thugs and a military run by an accomplice who has purged our armed forces of leaders who may have provided guardrails against it becoming the tool of a tyrant.

In less than six months, then two years later, we shall see whether the Constitutional rule of law created by America's Founders survives, or falls onto the ash heap of history.

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