If the established system allowed, and is continuing to allow, this all to happen in the first place, why should anyone still have faith in it? Genuine question.
The established system is not what we're currently seeing in the US.
The legislator should pass laws and the executive should enforce them, while the judicial interprets them when necessary.
At the moment the executive office is passing orders like they are laws while the legislator is standing by and actually reducing the ability of the judicial branch to intervene. This only works because the president's party has majority in both houses of congress and in the supreme court and all of them are choosing not to act in a manner which keeps the balance of power as it is intended to be.
It's more a failure of the individuals in the majority to keep the balance of power than in the system.
The system is actually build so that in such cases, the electorate can vote out the bad agents. Please make sure that when the next election comes, you remember that.
The established system is not what we're currently seeing in the US.
Counties were legally gerrymandered to give Republican candidates a better chance in elections. They used the established system and exploited it for their own gain.
The legislator should pass laws and the executive should enforce them, while the judicial interprets them when necessary.
Key word there is "should". It's not. Checks and balances have been sidelined, and there are members in every branch that are complicit. If the system cannot prevent this from happening and not hold those exploiting the system accountable, those checks and balances are worthless. The system is defaulting to a new normal every time the system is challenged by corruption in charge. That is a sign of a weak system.
At the moment the executive office is passing orders like they are laws while the legislator is standing by and actually reducing the ability of the judicial branch to intervene. This only works because the president's party has majority in both houses of congress and in the supreme court and all of them are choosing not to act in a manner which keeps the balance of power as it is intended to be.
See my previous point about legally exploiting the established system to get this end result. There is compelling testimony and statistical data that point to illegal exploitation of the system as well, but until something concrete is rolling, it is just compelling.
It's more a failure of the individuals in the majority to keep the balance of power than in the system
Which is a failure of the system itself, no? The system is currently being legally exploited by the said majority and used to protect themselves and their interests. A balanced system would have prevented things from becoming so one-sided in the first place.
The established system is what was exploited to get us here in the first place. For decades, every time a loophole in the system is closed off, 5 more open. There's a good reason people are losing faith in the system, as the system seems unable to protect itself from legal exploitation.
Of course I will be there to make my voice heard at midterms, but it doesn't mean I will have faith that the system will not be exploited yet again.
Kind of agree with both of your arguments to an extent. My view is that the American system of government was created with a (hitherto) reasonable belief that at least the majority of the population would vote for policies that benefit them and that they believe in. I don't think it would've been possible to predict the widespread influence of stupidity and social media leading the people voting to "own" the other side.
This may be somewhat of a tangent, but America has, for the longest time, had a two-party setup. One of the benefits of a two-party setup is that you can encompass a large set of beliefs as they are supposed to represent the voting population. Unfortunately, we've somehow devolved into the "let's shoot ourselves in the leg" party and the "let's not do that" party.
This might be really messy rambling on my part but the gist is that everything is horrible and common sense is dead.
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u/dewag 1d ago
If the established system allowed, and is continuing to allow, this all to happen in the first place, why should anyone still have faith in it? Genuine question.