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• Liberals cannot do that because it would be illegal

• There's nothing we can do about conservatives when they break the law, because they are too powerful

Lather, rinse, repeat.

Imagine believing in the Separation of Powers when the ruling class controls all branches of the government

Are the libs really trying to quote the constitution at us now? Read Federalist Papers #10 if you give so much of a shit about how the founders thought government was supposed to work.

These were people who led a revolution to replace the feudal ruling class with their own capitalist ruling class. It was literally democracy by and for the bourgeoisie. It was in their class interest for these protections to work and one of their biggest concerns was factionalism, which became a problem almost immediately and ultimately became so ubiquitous that even the most apolitical folks will complain about “division” and talk about how all the parties serve rich people.

Separation of powers my ass. Go take a look at the size of the executive bureaucracy and tell me how much you think the founders expected congress to abdicate large swaths of their power to the executive branch due to factional pressure. It’s such a bullshit argument, even from a non-leftist point of view.

Separation of powers? How about you separate deez nuts?

It was designed from the ground up to prevent good things?

liberals absolutely cannot fathom that someone else might be more read than they are so they assume all communists are the kids who fell asleep in the back of the class in 8th grade

separation of powers? nah dude the president has all the guys with guns, if he really wanted to he could purge the ranks, keep loyalists, and kill the other branches. in fact, the truest idea of separation is, funny enough, the fact that there are many executives in governorships who have their own militias and state guards. but these are obviously dwarfed by national spending and national recruitment numbers

also you know, he could do huge damage to the whole system if he wanted to given the fact he can legally drone strike pretty much whoever he wants

Trying to convert an atheist with Bible verses vibe.

I recommend reading any version of the constitution of the USSR. There's all kinds of enumerated positive rights. The government had legal obligations to safeguard your welfare, as opposed to the US government which is often legally prohibited from acting against the rich.

The laws that govern the organization of the bourgeois republic are as innate as the laws that govern reality. The separation of powers, like gravity, is to be understood and worked within, as critique is pointless, because change is impossible.

"It says it in our HOLY DOCUMENT that our elections are fair and free which means they are."

The president doesn't actually have any power sweaty. 🤔 Unless he's Republican.

"I'm sorry, but slavishly literal and rigid adherence to the made-up rules of bourgois democracy that are completely ignored by anybody but us is the only moral couse of action when the ghouls that govern the USA are stripping somebody off their human rights again. When they go low, we go high, high on sniffing our own farts."

Reddit's least unhinged and privileged liberal

To anyone from a non US system this is just sad. What is with the US libs thinking their separation of powers is remotely good instead of a deliberate attempt to avoide working class rule and maintain slavery? No sane person would give the US President the monarchical powers he has, even France is more limited.

It's a shame Executive Orders can only be issued by Republicans

I am once again asking the posters accusing Hexbears of bigotry to provide an example of what they mean.

"You gotta vote JOE for Team Blue if you want anything good to happen in the USA!"

also

"JOE DOESNT OWE YOU ANYTHING!"

Pweeease I'm just a smol bean pwesident I can't weawy do anything~

remember when the Supreme Court was gonna derail the new deal and FDR just shrugged and gave up? or when the Senate filibustered the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and LBJ just shrugged and gave up?

the only "separation of powers" i'm interested in is the one that separates the head from the neck of those in power.

why is friends in scare quotes mfer

The source of our disagreement must be that they simply have not internalized the same shit we all learned in high school.

i think there was a reason why Lincoln and FDR actually got anything done