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If leaders stay silent, the US won’t survive Trump’s next 100 days | Robert Reich
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 01 May 2025
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Hah, it's now a discussion of literal existentialism. No, I would say one could reasonably believe that "different" and "not surviving" are symonomous. The form that something existed in did not survive, and now only the new, different form exists. Ship of Theseus. If you replace every part of the old country one-by-one, once every part is replaced is it the same country or a different one? In this case, I think it's not useful to try to claim it's the same country.
Again, that's not what justified the civil war. Again, I agree that a peaceful democratic secession should be allowed, but again that's neither here nor there. Because here is a federal government ignoring the states' checks/balances, and there is a crime against humanity that was justified in being stopped by the other states, not a federal government acting outside of the states' checks/balances.
I am arguing based on the founding doctrine of the US and the concept of Federalism.
The assumption you're making is that the federal govt was designed to have autonomy of its own separate from the states. But the federal govt was intended to only be a democratic-republically determined representation of the states' intentions. Trump has the same misunderstanding, which is why he's using the "activist judges" rhetoric. But by design of the US constitution, the states are intended to have checks on the power of the federal govt. Regardless of how any 2A nut interprets the 2nd Amendment, that is the actual intended purpose: to prevent a federally organized military from staging a coup. The federation was always intended to be a way for the states to hold the power to regulate themselves.
The EU is fine for now, but I could easily see them going down a road to toward the same mistakes the US made. Especially if, in response to the failure of the US, they end up organizing a centralized EU-controlled military, and then all it takes is a bit of FUD to put a demagogue into power and wield that military to oppress.
No If USA falls into a fascist dictatorship, and the fedetal government takes full control, but in another 10 years, the fascist regime is exchanged for democracy again.
How can you say USA didn't survive, just because they had a bad period?
You are arguing arbitrary points that have no impact on my original claim.
No what I argue is based on the reality that the president has the executive power, and can choose to ignore the checks and balances, because they are poorly designed, and only work when everybody respects them.
But again all that is besides the point.
I've stated pretty clearly at least 3 times now that in that specific scenario, I would consider the re-established democracy to be the same country.
The inverse. You keep noting that the EU would allow a peaceful secession, but the US would not, and I'm saying that's irrelevant now and it was also irrelevant during the civil war.
Again, the inverse is true. Executive Decisions are simply a notice of intent, they are not law. Only the legislative branch can create laws. But the situation we find ourselves in is both Congress and scotus respecting the Executive Decisions as law. That was never supposed to happen. Now the state judges are trying to act as the last line of defense. This is not besides the point, this is literally what the entire thread, and my original comment is about.