SuperMario 🇵🇸
YFNAYes the U.S. has a terrible president but the very role of president guarantees eventual terribleness. When you create a powerful position, it's just a matter of time before the worst kind of person attains it, and by then all your precious checks and balances have eroded as well
john.brown_typeface@AnarchoNeighbor
no more authority
only horizontal power
Qybat@AnarchoNeighbor That was the original intent of the position of president: It was supposed to *not* be powerful. The president isn't guaranteed a majority as in a parliamentary system, so they can't pass any law without the consent of congress. They are expressly forbidden from allocating any funding. They can't declare war without congress. The position of president was supposed to be that of an administrative official, not a policy-maker.
But over the decades the position just grew and grew.
@AnarchoNeighbor A large part of that is that the president appoints people to so many, many different positions - many of which didn't exist when the constitution was written. The Senate merely confirms. So while the president's personal authority is limited, they are entirely welcome to head pretty much every federal agency with loyal sycophants who will obey any instruction without regard to if it is actually within presidential authority or not.
Mïkê 💚 👑🐉🗡️🏳️⚧️@AnarchoNeighbor That never happened to the Haudenosaunee chiefs. Elder women, who appointed and impeached chiefs, would raise all the village's boys together, so they'd always be able to see who would be best for the job. Then they'd just appoint the best ones. People would leave and start another village when they noticed the population getting too big for this.
That said, chiefs were never as powerful as American presidents. They had symbolic authority, which made people take them extremely seriously in meetings, but they never had the power to make anyone do anything against their will. The Haudenosaunee see that as illegitimate. That probably had something to do with it too.