A demise of democracy: on the brink

[myata]

Of the three presumably and by intent, independent branches of the U.S. government, the executive one has long been extremely partisan. Were there any non-partisan presidents in the history?

These days, the extreme partisanship in the legislature repeatedly creates crises. We can be only days from knowing for a fact if it has reached the point of no return, where any issue, regardless of its importance and priority to the society can be blocked or delayed indefinitely by partisan hostage politicking or just because it's possible.

Finally, the U.S. Supreme Court in the near future will pronounce decisions on several Trump cases. If those will be divided along the partisan lines, it would mean, factually, that independent and impartial judiciary will become a thing of the past. The parties will attempt to control judicial decisions to their political benefit.

A democratic government incurably divided and immobilized by extreme partisanship; or dominated and controlled by the agenda and ideology of the party in power. There's a word for that, right?

[Michael Hardner]

3 hours ago, myata said:

1. Were there any non-partisan presidents in the history?

2. There's a word for that, right?

1. I would pick Eisenhower, from the recent ones.

2. I suspect that the money in the political system is corrupting things more than the ideology.

[robosmith]

8 hours ago, myata said:

A democratic government incurably divided

Democratic government division is always curable by the voters.

Except when one Party tries to overturn the election or suppress voting by a particular class of people, like Republicans have done for decades.

8 hours ago, myata said:

and immobilized by extreme partisanship;

Republicans used to hold their pols accountable for extreme partisanship; now the MAGA celebrates it.

8 hours ago, myata said:

or dominated and controlled by the agenda and ideology of the party in power.

It something is controlled, that is total domination; which almost never occurs in democracy.

At least we've not had a veto proof majority nor the 2 legislative houses with super-majorities and executive branch, held by the same Party for a LONG TIME. Even when that happens they often DON'T exercise CONTROL due to disagreements within factions of that Party. Just consider Joe Manchin as a recent example.

8 hours ago, myata said:

There's a word for that, right?

What's the word? Hyperbolic.

[Legato]

3 hours ago, robosmith said:

What's the word? Hyperbolic.

Only if viewed as functions of modified exponentials and logarithms.

[CdnFox]

19 minutes ago, Legato said:

Only if viewed as functions of modified exponentials and logarithms.

LOL - good luck with that.  RoboSmith thinks "hyperbolic" is what a can of coke becomes if you shake it too much then open it.