Your posting gives a good history. But is bias. Written by a Department employee. It states the way things are supposed to work. Not how they really work.
Everyone that has any problems with our government should read your posting and follow the court cases.
Have you watched any of the House hearings that have been going on this year. What a joke. These departments heads are lying to Congress. There is no way that Congress can oversee many of these departments they call in for a oversite hearing. DC is a mess. The best thing the House could do is stop some of the funding until they get their oversite power back. The only way to do that is to stop the omnibus bills, become transparent, and put department head in jail or fire them if they lie to Congress.
Good that you responded. I will take it that you think the Venezuela government is corrupt and the cause of its own problems. And I also think that is the general perception of most Americans. But. What do the Venezuelan people think? Most Venezuelans view their country fifteen years after Cavez came to power as âVery Democraticâ. Most of their problems are caused by the US. Ref: Dimensions of Democracy in Contemporary Venezuela by Trudie Coker.
Of course, most people understand âdrain the swampâ to mean corruption and cronyism.
Point being. The viewpoint of how a Direct Democracy vs Representative Democracy works can be overshadowed by how much true data one has. One common factor between Venezuela and US is embracing a swamp system. So how are we able to compare a Direct Democracy to a Representative Democracy when neither one can operate correctly with a cancerous swamp?
These âdepartmentsâ are where the scientists/professionals are. You may not like them saying that corporations need to clean up their stacks, not pollute the streams, cut back on fishing lest there are no more fish. I donât always agree with regulations that have affected my life (as a pilot) but I certainly think the FAA has done much more to improve aviation than any political representative would do.
It seems reasonable to have politicians decide on budgeting for these agencies/administrations. Until, that is, they are convinced (bought) by lobbyists who think they know better than the experts.
Yes, it is time to add several amendments. Better still, letâs write a new one.
Well, we had an assault weapons ban that was working quite well compared to what we have now. And thatâs not giving up your second amendment rights. You are limited to what cars you can drive on public streets but that doesnât mean you lose your right to drive.
Certainly an important one for most.
Are you saying, for example, that the EPA is following a party rather than serving the public?
Seems like the swamp is whatever you donât like. Like I said, itâs not a useful term.
A very smart decision.
That looks like the basis for many conspiracy theories.
But we already agreed that our representatives do not represent us. Why would we want to give them more power? Upholding Chevron keeps the experts in charge. Anything else is just uncivilized.
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me! I care
I think the 4 pillars of the Democrat party are, currently:
Big tech
The intel and security services
The film industry and a key share of legacy media
The lionâs share of global finance (âwall streetâ)
Thatâs all you need: Money, enforcement and propaganda, it has been a winning combination.
What changed for the dems by 2016 was the intel services basically flipping sides. I guess living in Virginia to a large extent they were finally sick of the religious right.
Other interests (Israel, military industrial) tend to cleave to both sides.
What you get with Trump, I guess, is anti-all the above (âWall streetâ is replaced with his own money to some extent), plus more religion.
So I will vote for third party. I dont know how anyone besides sociopaths and psychopaths can vote for biden - the self declared Zionist, with arms folded as israel commits daily atrocities. In fact biden sending even more weapons including fighter jets to israel . Overnight israel deliberately bombed and murdered international aid workers and bombed iran embassy in syria which is an act of war. Israel clearly is out of control and is pushing for a wider middle east war which will involve USA . All this under Bidens watch. What a disaster he has been .
Three world kitchen trucks were bombed by IDF with their logo painted on the truck roofs and
It said it had coordinated the convoyâs movements with the IDF when it was hit.
-What a poisonous Frankenstein ânationâ Israel is.
I didnât know Intel could flip politics that easy.
More power to ya. I would like a more parliamentary style government, but, thatâs a huge change. In the near term, I think we can return to the congress that had more in the center, working together more often.
West and stein still in there. Otherwise the other decent option is to not vote. Still long way to go to november. Lots of twists and turns to come i am sure
But that problem is not of Bidenâs making. He is merely honoring a long-standing commitment to Israel in defense of Arab aggression.
Note that he has protested the way this war is going to the Israelis.
But for Israel this is not a schoolyard brawl that can be stopped by outsiders. This is an existential threat to Israel and after WWII they have a saying (and resolve); ânever againâ, and are proving it.
Survival by force may seem uncivilized and it is. But committing suicide letting someone else kill you is also uncivilized and stupid.
In nature, all organisms have defensive capabilities and many of them are deadly.
After awhile, predators may think twice before attacking something that can fight back better than you. And then peace ensues.
He is allowing nothing. It is Israel that is not allowing Hamas next door. As long as Hamas is tolerated (allowed) by Palestine, Israel cannot afford to stop.
It is up to Hamas to make the first move of peace, they made the first move of war.
Please note that from a humanitarian perspective, I donât necessarily agree with it.
I am trying to be objective and see this from Israelâs perspective. In a world of âcause and effectâ it is the cause that is responsible for the consequences, not the other way around.
And this is true under any scenario that presents an existential dilemma.
The problem is not difficult; Let the Arabs disarm and dismantle Hamas and Israel will stop bombing. The organized threat will have been neutralized. Any chance?
If you ignore the Palestinian right to exist, yes, it is that simple. But why not have Israel stop taking land from them? Why not neutralize the Israeli organized threat?
