This is gonna have to be a two part reply. I'm sorry. If the Republicans remain in power, it's gonna be "meet the new boss, same as the old boss"
There is a move credible, viable, movement afoot to shift the role of government from leadership to rule and to shift a scary amount of power into the hands of the Executive Branch.
As of the passage of the Military Commissions Act, the President, RIGHT NOW has the power to imprison ANYONE he deems to be an enemy combatant, and the MCA specifically states that no other court has jurisdiction over that act. The imprisonment has no appeal, no review, and no oversight. And Gonzales, the boss of the judiciary tap-danced around this, publicly stating that Habeus Corpus is not a right of the US citizenry. This state of affairs has NEVER existed to this degree in this country, and does not exist in a free society. It exists and has existed in plenty of totalitarian societies, like Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany. And it was not poverty that created those conditions, it was those in power consolidating power and abusing the system and then outright claiming power. Both Germany and Italy, despite their economies had Habeas Corpus rights in their Constitutions, until they were suspended at the order of their Executives and passed with the approval of their Legislatures. THAT is what set the stage for Extreme Executive Power, NOT poverty. Poverty was an enabling factor because it was a distraction, not because it was a cause.
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If the Republicans remain in power, it's gonna be "meet the new boss, same as the old boss"
There is a move credible, viable, movement afoot to shift the role of government from leadership to rule and to shift a scary amount of power into the hands of the Executive Branch.
As of the passage of the Military Commissions Act, the President, RIGHT NOW has the power to imprison ANYONE he deems to be an enemy combatant, and the MCA specifically states that no other court has jurisdiction over that act.
The imprisonment has no appeal, no review, and no oversight. And Gonzales, the boss of the judiciary tap-danced around this, publicly stating that Habeus Corpus is not a right of the US citizenry.
This state of affairs has NEVER existed to this degree in this country, and does not exist in a free society. It exists and has existed in plenty of totalitarian societies, like Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany. And it was not poverty that created those conditions, it was those in power consolidating power and abusing the system and then outright claiming power. Both Germany and Italy, despite their economies had Habeas Corpus rights in their Constitutions, until they were suspended at the order of their Executives and passed with the approval of their Legislatures. THAT is what set the stage for Extreme Executive Power, NOT poverty. Poverty was an enabling factor because it was a distraction, not because it was a cause.