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This experience illustrates the importance of good thread title selection - your poor choice of thread title caused it to become dated and require a new thread, when the new thread could have simply been an addendum to the original thread, had it had a more appropriate title.
boof (OP) replied with this 3 months ago, 4 hours later, 2 days after the original post[^][v]#1,354,050
I have figured something out only in the past couple of weeks. I think it should have been emphasized in the school. A way for a budding tyrant to override a governance system that has checks and balances is to exploit any and all avenues of activating perpetual states of emergency. This capability amounts to a loophole. It should be that a well crafted set of laws surrounding the activation and perpetuation of states of emergency should make it impossible to invoke them without review at the outset, and impossible to perpetuate without further review at some preset interval. I mean that seems to me to be the barest of minimum check to absolute power.
Anonymous E replied with this 3 months ago, 9 hours later, 2 days after the original post[^][v]#1,354,127
@previous (boof)
The vast majority of Americans in their formative years just hear the "There is a system of checks and balances" part and internalize that without question. Then when anybody points out "Hey, I think the executive branch can do [unprecedented thing], look here in our laws, there is nothing to prevent [ crazy sounding scenario ]!", they laugh and pretend it could never happen. You can't teach these things to students whom don't have curious minds. Now they must learn through experience