ardvarcus

Donald Trump was elected by the people. You know, the white Christians who live in what the bi-coastal libtards call the "fly-over states." He was elected in the face of opposition from every aspect of the Deep State and every power base of the Jew-controlled, liberal establishment. Yes, democracy still lives in America. But for how much longer?

vastrightwing

Some of us have known for a long time. More of us are waking up.

lemon11

This is odd. For one thing, 2014 is very late to realize anything politically. But the feature of a "dictatorship" is power, whereas this article is all about installing officers corruptly, and some mention of the permanent mandarin-style bureaucracy. The executive does feature dictator powers, yet this article doesn't discuss them at all. It's a lot like articles featured in bygone years on Eddit where they complain about an unfavorable politician, yet not about the absurd powers he can wield.

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http://archive.fo/IooeD#selection-957.0-985.81

As I wrote in The Party is Over, the present objective of congressional Republicans is to render the executive branch powerless, at least until a Republican president is elected (a goal that voter suppression laws in GOP-controlled states are clearly intended to accomplish).

President Obama cannot enact his domestic policies and budgets: Because of incessant GOP filibustering, not only could he not fill the large number of vacancies in the federal judiciary, he could not even get his most innocuous presidential appointees into office.

Democrats controlling the Senate have responded by weakening the filibuster of nominations, but Republicans are sure to react with other parliamentary delaying tactics. This strategy amounts to congressional nullification of executive branch powers by a party that controls a majority in only one house of Congress.

Despite this apparent impotence, President Obama can liquidate American citizens without due processes, detain prisoners indefinitely without charge, conduct dragnet surveillance on the American people without judicial warrant and engage in unprecedented — at least since the McCarthy era — witch hunts against federal employees (the so-called “Insider Threat Program”).

Within the United States, this power is characterized by massive displays of intimidating force by militarized federal, state and local law enforcement. Abroad, President Obama can start wars at will and engage in virtually any other activity whatsoever without so much as a by-your-leave from Congress, such as arranging the forced landing of a plane carrying a sovereign head of state over foreign territory.

Despite the habitual cant of congressional Republicans about executive overreach by Obama, the would-be dictator, we have until recently heard very little from them about these actions — with the minor exception of comments from gadfly Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky. Democrats, save a few mavericks such as Ron Wyden of Oregon, are not unduly troubled, either — even to the extent of permitting seemingly perjured congressional testimony under oath by executive branch officials on the subject of illegal surveillance.

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"Yes, there is another government concealed behind the one that is visible at either end of Pennsylvania Avenue, a hybrid entity of public and private institutions ruling the country…"