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Re:Undercover reporter reveals life in a Polish troll farm by momokoko on Monday November 04, 2019 @05:30PM (#21447324)
One of the unfortunate side effects of significantly reducing the power of democratically elected governments is that while the government has less power to do damage, it also less power to correct wrongs.
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Re:Undercover reporter reveals life in a Polish troll farm by CamperBob2 on Monday November 04, 2019 @09:55PM (#21449179)
On the other hand, if you reduced the Federal government's power enough, it wouldn't matter who was President.

The staggering amount of power we grant to the executive branch is one of several elephants in this particular room that no one really wants to talk about.

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Re:Undercover reporter reveals life in a Polish troll farm by donw on Monday November 04, 2019 @08:01PM (#21448573)
I think it's a pretty far stretch to say that the power of the Federal government has been "significantly reduced" in the past hundred years or so.

Happy to hear a good counter-argument, though...?

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