tl;dr: Congress has abdicated many of its powers by over-delegating to the executive, and Congress seems perfectly happy to keep i that way. Part of this is because of an unanticipated flaw in the Constitution: the Framers conceived of Congress and the President as rivals, whereas now partisan alignment across branches is much more significant. It’s not mentioned here, but Supreme Court decisions this term have significantly eroded the Chevron Doctrine, which has courts defer to administrative agency’s judgement on interpretation of a Congressional statute.
As SCOTUS tightens the freedoms of the administrative state, the idea from proponents of tightening is that Congress will step into the gap to reclaim the power that they should never have given away. However, there’s no indication that the fundamental malaise on Congress will lift. It is too polarized and too based around oppositional politics rather than producing compromise bills that best represent the will of the people.
Representation in general is a problem as well. The Electoral College presents a growing danger because it is increasingly unrepresentative. We’ve now had two elections in 16 years where the winner of the popular vote lost the election. The same happens with Congress, but more severe. Continued minority rule could cause chaos as the majority no long accepts rule by the minority.
Representation in general is a problem as well. The Electoral College presents a growing danger because it is increasingly unrepresentative. We’ve now had two elections in 16 years where the winner of the popular vote lost the election. The same happens with Congress, but more severe. Continued minority rule could cause chaos as the majority no long accepts rule by the minority.
The people haven’t elected a president since Al Gore. And the last 4? Supreme Court justices were picked by the minority party, from a pool of about 3 dozen or so judges that are part of an openly hostile extremist group.
Al Gore won the vote. Then his opponent’s brother, Jeb Bush, governor of Florida suddenly found ‘irregularities’, threw out a ton of votes, and just merely coincidentally now his brother was declared winner? We’re supposed to believe that? Maybe if his dad wasn’t just president a decade earlier, that might be believable… maybe.
Oh, the usual way to say that is “The people haven’t elected a president since Bill Clinton.” since Al Gore was not elected president. But where do Obama and Biden fit in there?
That’s a big exception, considering that his time in office comprises over a third of the time since the start of Bush’s term. Also, declaring “the people elected Bernie Sanders” is just wrong. He didn’t get anything near a victory in either primary. He also would almost certainly have crashed and burned hard if he ever got to the general, so equating “socialists love Bernie” to “the people elected Bernie Sanders” is at best unknowable and likely very incorrect.
There’s so many moving pieces with Hillary that it would be difficult to make a solid case, especially with the whole Weiner Comey fiasco. But I will say about that, there was a double standard, before with Trump it was thou shalt not make announcements too close to election day, then suddenly they did the opposite with Hillary. As for Bernie, it came out after that the Democratic leadership very much ignored the caucus to choose Hillary instead of Bernie. Donna Brazil admitted some pretty messed up shenanigans on public TV.
But then the following election, forgive me I don’t remember all of the exact minutiae, but Bernie was winning, and was pressured into a premature concession when Buttigieg conceded to Biden, a selfish calculated act which might even be paid back by him being the next chosen king. At least that was his hope and there’s been a lot of scuttlebutt about it. Krystal Ball did a segment about it once, I’m too lazy to look up the YouTube vid but it’s probably easy to find.
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tl;dr: Congress has abdicated many of its powers by over-delegating to the executive, and Congress seems perfectly happy to keep i that way. Part of this is because of an unanticipated flaw in the Constitution: the Framers conceived of Congress and the President as rivals, whereas now partisan alignment across branches is much more significant. It’s not mentioned here, but Supreme Court decisions this term have significantly eroded the Chevron Doctrine, which has courts defer to administrative agency’s judgement on interpretation of a Congressional statute.
As SCOTUS tightens the freedoms of the administrative state, the idea from proponents of tightening is that Congress will step into the gap to reclaim the power that they should never have given away. However, there’s no indication that the fundamental malaise on Congress will lift. It is too polarized and too based around oppositional politics rather than producing compromise bills that best represent the will of the people.
Representation in general is a problem as well. The Electoral College presents a growing danger because it is increasingly unrepresentative. We’ve now had two elections in 16 years where the winner of the popular vote lost the election. The same happens with Congress, but more severe. Continued minority rule could cause chaos as the majority no long accepts rule by the minority.
The people haven’t elected a president since Al Gore. And the last 4? Supreme Court justices were picked by the minority party, from a pool of about 3 dozen or so judges that are part of an openly hostile extremist group.
I’m with you with the justices, but could you elaborate on Al Gore, especially since he didn’t actually get the presidency?
Al Gore won the vote. Then his opponent’s brother, Jeb Bush, governor of Florida suddenly found ‘irregularities’, threw out a ton of votes, and just merely coincidentally now his brother was declared winner? We’re supposed to believe that? Maybe if his dad wasn’t just president a decade earlier, that might be believable… maybe.
Oh, the usual way to say that is “The people haven’t elected a president since Bill Clinton.” since Al Gore was not elected president. But where do Obama and Biden fit in there?
Obama might be an exception. The people elected Bernie Sanders, twice. Not Biden.
That’s a big exception, considering that his time in office comprises over a third of the time since the start of Bush’s term. Also, declaring “the people elected Bernie Sanders” is just wrong. He didn’t get anything near a victory in either primary. He also would almost certainly have crashed and burned hard if he ever got to the general, so equating “socialists love Bernie” to “the people elected Bernie Sanders” is at best unknowable and likely very incorrect.
There’s so many moving pieces with Hillary that it would be difficult to make a solid case, especially with the whole Weiner Comey fiasco. But I will say about that, there was a double standard, before with Trump it was thou shalt not make announcements too close to election day, then suddenly they did the opposite with Hillary. As for Bernie, it came out after that the Democratic leadership very much ignored the caucus to choose Hillary instead of Bernie. Donna Brazil admitted some pretty messed up shenanigans on public TV.
But then the following election, forgive me I don’t remember all of the exact minutiae, but Bernie was winning, and was pressured into a premature concession when Buttigieg conceded to Biden, a selfish calculated act which might even be paid back by him being the next chosen king. At least that was his hope and there’s been a lot of scuttlebutt about it. Krystal Ball did a segment about it once, I’m too lazy to look up the YouTube vid but it’s probably easy to find.