TBH

But your plan would need to be a multi-decade one

Congress can do a lot of shit to fuck with the president

as we've already seen

My plan would be to hang congress and start over

Revert the Permanent Apportionment Act

I dont know about that, given that congress is basically there to limit power in the oval office

get rid of government Pensions

The President really doesn't have that much power

it's that Congress is full of cowards.

I would rip power out of the fed in general though, given political god powers over the 'states.

You need to read the constitution again.

a lot of what we're seeing with the executive actions is just because Congress is full of cowards

I'm talking about a situation in which congress is removed.

as well as congress likes it when he bombs melinated individuals in shithole countries

I'm not talking about removing the institution just the institutionalized

Ah okay, I misunderstood then

we've got far too many life long politicians who have no real skills.

You should have to be somewhat financially secure or get enough support from people so you can do the work without sucking off the gubmint teat

Being a Lawyers should almost disqualify you from being in Government, but what are most Congress creatures?

I don't know if you've ever worked with Lawyers, but it's not the group I think of when I think cheap and efficient

So to be clear on where I'm coming from more precisely, I think you're going to be continuing to run into these problems as long as you continue to have societal degradation on a communal and state level

Lawyers can be pretty financially secure though

Really the long term plan is fixing Congress, and then dealing with the Judiciary activism.

Didn't trump sign the order banning the lobbyist revolving door?

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

it's something

Sure, that helps

At least with the money in politics garbage

As I said, the President is really limited in his powers

and a lot of the stuff with Executive orders is completely untested

Congress is just full of cowards, and greedy for power.

They don't want to reduce the side channel, or enforce their authority over it over fear of culpability and the loss of power when they finally get their president back in office.

Well because executive orders weren't intended to be a primary avenue of political change, I suspect
My point is more so that I think the ability of the president to "Get Shit Done" has been talked up too much. The overplay works well for getting into office, sadly, but the reason why people were apathetic in the first place was because of said pattern of behaviour. It ultimately depends on how the average, largely uninformed voter behaves

Executive orders isn't a clearly defined thing

The fact that you even think that the president really has a lot of power with it shows you've not even done remedial research.

Now you're back to the "apathy" which is where you lose me.

Things are always going to be a bit slanted to the short term.

Just like how right now is layoff season so corps can post better earnings for the 4Q

Again, presidential power comment was based on a misunderstanding re: your comment about congress. I'd like to stop coming back to this one now that we've established where things are

I'm not talking about the short term either

I know that was your criticism in part wasn't it?

People in general are going to be primed to prefer things they can conceive of in the short term