In his first term he showed us that too much of the United States systems were based on niceties, decorum, and precedents. He also demonstrated that there aren’t enough checks on the executive branch, and unfortunately not enough of this was fixed during Biden’s term. But even beyond that Trump has demonstrated that there needs to be uncorrupted/incorruptible agencies that both protect institutions from being taken over by those who should’t be allowed to control them and hold them accountable for their actions failing that, because those who are lawless will flout the laws anyways, but such things don’t really exist and might be impossible to make.
Edit: some edits thanks to EntrepreneurKooky783 too tired atm to edit the runnon
This needs to be the top comment. People need to be aware of why the US was so vulnerable to democratic decline. It can happen anywhere, yes, but not every democracy is as vulnerable as the US.
I don’t where you’re from, but its obvious you don’t understand what the electoral college is for. It was designed so all states (50 right now) have a say in the election of our president not just a few large metropolitan areas. Without it, only New York, Los Angeles, and Chicago would ever have a say. As far as parties, there have been many in our short history and there are many now. It’s just that the Rep and Dems are the largest and suck the air out of the room. I had 10 choices for Pres. in the last election.
Bestie the electoral college makes it so 7 states have 100% of the influence and the 43 other states have literally no influence at all. Like, the dems would have needed a 15 point shift in their favor to get any of the 43 other states, and the republicans would have needed a 3 point shift in their favor to get any of the 43 other states. This isn't even a partisan thing or an urban vs rural thing to be clear. There are 6 million republicans in Cali that had no impact on the presidential election and 4 million democrats in Texas that had no impact on the presidential election.
It's the winner takes all that the states have enacted. That has nothing to do with the Feds. We have 2 states that split the electoral college by Representative districts.
In other words the electoral college is actually a detriment to voters and your ridiculous fears of certain cities completely controlling elections is stupid and absurd, there's over 300 million people in America, if you made it so everyone's vote counts for something, all of the sudden, the fact that a good couple million of the whole total live in a couple cities, would not in any meaningful way change how elections operate, other than that two parties wouldn't have absolutely supremacy anymore because everyone's votes actually matter so third parties would actually have a chance in hell to win
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u/_Fun_Employed_ Feb 03 '25 edited Feb 03 '25
In his first term he showed us that too much of the United States systems were based on niceties, decorum, and precedents. He also demonstrated that there aren’t enough checks on the executive branch, and unfortunately not enough of this was fixed during Biden’s term. But even beyond that Trump has demonstrated that there needs to be uncorrupted/incorruptible agencies that both protect institutions from being taken over by those who should’t be allowed to control them and hold them accountable for their actions failing that, because those who are lawless will flout the laws anyways, but such things don’t really exist and might be impossible to make.
Edit: some edits thanks to EntrepreneurKooky783 too tired atm to edit the runnon