You’d think a hegemony with a 100-years tradition of upkeeping democracy against major non-democratic players, would have some mechanism that would prevent itself from throwing down it’s key ideology.

Is it really that the president is all that decides about the future of democracy itself? Is 53 out of 100 senate seats really enough to make country fall into authoritarian regime? Is the army really not constitutionally obliged to step in and save the day?

I’d never think that, of all places, American democracy would be the most volatile.

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      Who would have thought a government created in model of a constitutional monarchy would do this?

      Oh right, all the people who opposed the US constitution. People forget the Anti Federalists every time.

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        Except most of the Anti Federalists weren’t arguing against the specifics of the model, they were arguing against a centralized government at all. Which had literally just failed.

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          Next you’re gonna tell me a constitutional monarchy isn’t a centralized government.