• ryathal@sh.itjust.works
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    3 hours ago

    There’s not really follow on issues from the president and vice president being elected together instead of in opposition. The opposition is supposed to be Congress not a person with only symbolic power.

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      3 hours ago

      That’s what they thought. But, keep in mind, if there’s a tie in the House or Senate, guess who casts the deciding vote? The VP.

      Not the president. The veep.

      The whole thing is set up to make passing new laws difficult. Intentionally.

      We’ve made it easier and easier over the years. And in the process, we’ve broken our nation. We turned a nation built on bottom up power, where the majority of power is held by the individual into a top down power where our government has the majority of the power.