Comment on Why would America declaring cartels terrorist organizations be a problem for Mexico?

• HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  A problem with the constitution is that the framers didn’t expect items to be defined differently than today. No one really expected a mass deployment of troops that wouldn’t be called a war.

  Also, the framers didn’t expect Congress to roll over as much as it has to the President.

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  • refurbishedrefurbisher@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    More generally, the founders wrote the constitution as if every leader will act in good faith. That has proven to be a bad idea, but also how do you even account for that? Their idea was a system of checks and balances, but that failed to account for when one party has control over every branch, and for when one branch goes rogue and starts ignoring the other two branches, as we are seeing now with the executive.

    IMO, limiting power (money in the case of a capitalistic society) is the only way. The founders had the right idea with the limitation of power, but they didn’t take that idea to the economic side of things. Force all corporations to be worker owned coops and have a hard wealth cap of $50 million by taxing anything over at a rate of 100%.

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• refurbishedrefurbisher@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  It is, but… you know.

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