There have been unelected officials since Washington, and this has grown over time. The cabinet positions are delegates of the President's executive powers, and those who work under the secretaries are further delegated those powers.
And all of that is fine. What has changed is that this now sprawling government has entrenched itself to the point it answers to nobody and assumes powers that are only constitutionally granted to the President.
And I don't think any administration has really challenged it. The trigger to a constitutional battle will be attempting to clean out departments. It's a major key to "draining the swamp".
It has to be done, or Trump's presidency will have only temporary results.
While I don't see any amount of cheating capable of stealing an election that isn't close, I wasn't talking about elections. I'm referring to the core character of the American people. It's not something that can just be steamrolled over by some political ideology.
Regardless of election outcomes or media control, when the majority begin to lose the normalcy that keeps us content, we tend to fight. That was already beginning to boil over when Trump came along.
The left's latest shenanigans have turned the burner up again. As long as the average American feels they have some control over their life, they aren't going to sacrifice stability for their families in order to fight against a poison ideology that isn't quite hurting them yet.
Once that dynamic changes, and that stability is threatened, the so-called "silent majority" responds. It's frustrating to those of us who see the Left for what it is, and how it erodes society over time, but it's also a reason why our country is so stable to begin with.
Because when Americans fight back, they don't do so in a small way. If the Left continues to push too far instead of fading away, there will be a violent backlash. They are very much in the minority.
A classic hallmark of cult psychology. The inability to think critically or to go against groupthink.
The modern left really is like a cult. The same was true in naziism and bolshevism, so this is an old and tattered playbook.
I still believe that playbook ultimately fails on the American playing field.
Bizarre that the flailing New York Times would report it this way. I'm still not 100 percent sure how all of this went down and hesitant to jump to conclusions in anything like this, but this snippet seems to point towards a solid self-defense case for that kid.
I'm so tired of this leftist claim that Trump is some sort of pathological liar. Any I've asked who claim this can never give a solid example. They either say he "lies about everything" as if that somehow excuses them from having to give an example, or they use media snippets and headlines which bear little resemblance to what Trump actually said.
It's one of the more maddening aspects of the disinformation campaign against him, to the point where even some of those who support him do so "in spite of" his supposed tendency to lie. That's how widespread this particular fallacy has become.
The Diet system was established under the Meiji Constitution in the late 1800s. A new Constitution was created in 1947, following the occupation of Japan, but it kept the basic concept of the Diet, as well as the position of Prime Minister.
The main reason why they have a Prime Minister is because they are a Constitutional Monarchy and the Emperor is the Head of State, the same a the UK with their Queen. Establishing a Republican form of government would require removing the Head of State status from the Emperor, and that was not something the American government was willing to push for, lest it cause civil unrest.