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Seeing a lot of "Both sides" comments again so need to remind y'all (slrpnk.net)

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (2 children)

As the US is a presidential republic, the government is appointed by the president and, thus does not necessarily have the majority of seats in the pairlament. Therefore, the government and the pairlament need to elaborate compromises

This oversimplification isn't really wrong, but it isn't correct either. Many very consequential positions are appointed by the president, such as the heads and governing bodies for many government agencies (and the president has official power to instruct agencies to do certain things, however those agencies do have the right to choose not to follow those instructions) but ultimately the president's power is held in check by the judicial and legislative branches of government which are both elected positions from the states. It's honestly impressively well thought out that the 3 branches of government rely on each other, and ultimately can't make significant changes without engaging the other branches, but each is given specific duties that that branch can govern independently

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

The issue with that system is while there is checks and balances available, One Branch in particular holds the majority of the authority in that balance system, and that being the legislative branch, and when that Branch doesn't work together you might as well throw that checks and balance system out the window.

We are seeing this issue with the current Supreme Court where it's very clear that there is visible corruption in the seats, but the executive branch can't do anything about it because the legislative branch can't get along long enough to be able to do it. This is exactly why we are warned against having a two-party system in the first place

Our system while on paper seems nice falls apart instantly the second any of the three branches decide they no longer want to do their job, or can't agree with an outcome,

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

As I understood, the question was about laws which need to be approved by the legislative power, not executive orders or alike.
Actually I just was told, that what we here in good ol' Europe call government, the highest officials of the executive power, i.e. MP and ministers, is called administration by you in the US. I've corrected that.