Re:Why We Can't Build
by freehunter on Thursday April 23, 2020 @04:55PM
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And that’s part of the problem, a loose confederation of states with a weak central government morphed over the past 200 years into a president who has such unbelievable powers and a federal government who claims total authority over the states. It wasn’t meant to be like that.
Right, the systems of government of the United States are nearly identical to those of the European Union[1] (especially so prior to the passage of the 17th Amendment), and we constantly try to compare the Union to individual unitary states like Denmark or France or Singapore.
Trying to shove an EU-shaped peg into a France-sized hole is probably not worth the effort.
It also helps to think of the United States as more akin to the European Union, rather than any of its individual member states. This is purely conjecture, but an EU that is as centrally powerful as the US would likely be equally disastrous.