It's baffling
-> which is badly needed
In the US power is divided between three branches of government to prevent any one bench from becoming too powerful through checks and balances. Consolidation of power in one branch would mean unchecked, dictatorial powers.
-> How did you come to that conclusion from their comment?
How did you not?
Power here is a zero sum game.
What’s happening here isn’t really the forming of a dictatorship, it’s more single party alignment coupled with a majority in the three branches.
For example there’s nothing stopping congress from sending articles of impeachment followed by removal, other than the fact that there’s no consensus. But there’s no consensus because there’s alignment on the current activities.
TLDR: a sufficient amount of congress implicitly endorses trumps activities.
Which is because Congress has been captured by the autocrat that wants to turn himself into a dictator. They've rolled over and are allowing it to happen. They are setting up a system that will allow them to hold into power for perpetuity, and prevent future elections from changing that.
In any case congress has hardly been captured. People keep saying this nonsense as if it’s been many years. It hasn’t even been a month. Once the constituents digest the activity congress will adjust accordingly.
Most of trumps EOs have been blocked or frozen for now. The system is balancing as intended.
If you read up on unitary executive theory, you won't need to look too hard to stumble upon the fact that it is rejected as being sugar-coated totalitarianism.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_backsliding_in_th...
So you're trying to refute the totalitarian push represented by Trump's abuses with a theory that is known to represent a totalitarian push.
Some people think it’s valid that the president be the absolute executive. I have no opinion on whether that should be true or not.
Even if the president was the absolute executive, they still wouldn’t be a dictator.
When trumps EOs no longer can be blocked by judges I’ll believe he is one. Until then we still have our checks and balances.
I encourage you to read what’s actually happening and not just headlines or tweets.
It clearly is.
> Trumps stuff is already being blocked.
That's like claiming there isn't a rape problem because a rapist attempts at raping someone is already being blocked.
The biggest thing holding poorer Americans back is lack of education opportunities and wage theft by their employers.
What does this department do to address those issues?
I must be living in a different America then.
You would genuinely be surprised. Financially the thing that leads most Americans to bankruptcy is medical debt.
Another factor primarily lead by private industry taking advantage of people.
The mediums of places like Pittsburgh is still much higher than most cities on earth.
Americans struggle with wealth inequality not raw wealth. One of the mechanisms to redistribute wealth is the government itself.
[1] https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/prot...
What is in the constitution is that ONLY Congress has the power to control spending tax dollars. DOGE has no legal authority to stop any payments that Congress has approved.
Please point to a single component of the US federal government in its founding document, the Constitution, that has received as much as a glance.
The last century of cruft, corruptly driven by people not standing for election is where the action is found.
$37T of debt later, we're at the end of a cycle.
Let's just make sure DOGE is not a cure worse than the disease.