Speaker Mike Johnson floats eliminating federal courts as GOP ramps up attacks on judges
Speaker Mike Johnson floats eliminating federal courts as GOP ramps up attacks on judges
The guy who came up with checks and balances really overlooked only giving one branch a military
The guy who came up with checks and balances really overlooked only giving one branch a military
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The United States didn't start keeping a large standing Army until after WWII!
Take a look at this from Statista for most of our history the US would build up the military for a war and then strip it back to almost nothing as soon as the fighting was over.
The original guys didn't fuck it up we allowed Congress to break it!
Well, yeah...the military is actually a welfare/jobs program. It also served a key role in culling excess boomer population before they started needing to get jobs.
the military is actually a welfare/jobs program.
And everything that implies aside, it's a really good one. Coming out of the military with a decent MOS or G.I. Bill is one of the few paths to real class mobility left for a lot of people. That's by design I'm sure.
Coming out of the military with a decent MOS or G.I. Bill is one of the few paths to real class mobility left for a lot of people.
For now. They have already screwed over a huge chunk of people who were enrolled in loan forgiveness for federal service and continually screw vets over with the intentionally horrible VA system. I'd not count on the GI Bill surviving Trump.
Oh for sure, on all points. It's a real good jobs program, it's one of the few vessels for class mobility left, and it's entirely that way by design.
Can't have everyone getting free college. Just the ones that work for us for a few years, breathe in one or more toxic chemicals, and come out the other side brainwashed by being spoonfed nationalist propaganda the whole time like they're making jarhead foie gras. Assuming you didn't start sucking that koolaid tit in highschool from the junior ROTC.
I've got nothing but respect for our Marines. Someone has to be the dumbest motherfucker in the room, and they will proudly step into those shoes.
That's not it. The thing is that they refused acknowledging that partisanship would evolve. They preferred to hold on to the illusion that everybody involved in office would always be altruistic and solely work for the greater good, which was laughably naive even then (as many people pointed out to them).
That part is really up to the voters hence the federalist papers and the whole “masses are asses” thing…
i mean it's a mathematical certainty that FPTP systems will eventually result in only 2 parties.
so it really is not up to the voters...
You’re right and this is BS.
In retrospect, they should have not made First Past the Post voting our voting standard. That is primarily what has caused our partisanship to arise to the extent that it has.
We can still change the voting system in each state individually to move away from First Past the Post, but that requires each individual state to have ballot initiative going that people can vote on for a new system such as Ranked Robin voting, STAR voting, Score voting, or even Ranked Choice voting.
It wasn’t intending on having an army at all, they thought a standing army would lead to tyranny so they came up with the 2nd amendment instead so a militia could be called as needed
Which tbh was really short sighted as well. Every nation needs an army to hold onto their self determination. And it needs to be well funded. Such has been proved repeatedly throughout history
it's a classic anarchism vs centralization struggle, happens a lot in federations historically. Sometimes you do need everyone to stop slacking off and fight off the invaders.
Or nukes, either one, my friend.
Fair enough
Not at all? This is nonsense. The very concept of a standing professional military has been exceedingly rare throughout history and was so during the Revolutionary period as well.
Only Congress can declare war...
Or at least, that was the plan at the time.
