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In the current news climate we see that some figures and events tend to dominate the front-pages heavily. Still, there a
American constitution has changed significantly, there’s a process to change it. It’s not set in stone, but the revisions are transparent and so is what needs to be revised.Also most of the issue with Trump isn’t what he doesn’t follow in the written portions of the constitution, it’s his lack of interest in upkeeping the “unwritten norms” that you’re so strongly defending (whi
That's the problem, and that's the educational thing about Trump. It was always assumed, a bit foolishly, that everything was written down and perfect. It now turns out that the constitution always depended on unwritten rules and, when you get a ruler who doesn't care about all that, there's no check. An executive ruler quite separate from the legislature, and unanswerable to it, was probably always going to be a liability, and some of the founders feared they were creating a ruler 'plus roi que le roi', but there it is.
There's probably a reason why no other country has followed the American model. It was an interesting ab initio effort, but it has left no descendants.
That's the problem, and that's the educational thing about Trump. It was always assumed, a bit foolishly, that everything was written down and perfect. It now turns out that the constitution always depended on unwritten rules and, when you get a ruler who doesn't care about all that, there's no check. An executive ruler quite separate from the legislature, and unanswerable to i
Who the **** assumed that. The reality has been well understood all my life (and discussed here long before trump)
I assume (perhaps foolishly) that even before godel, anyone who thought about it could see huge problems.
I never completed Godel. Nor did I ever falsify Popper.

