They say that times of crises provide opportunities to assess how our country's going. So, I'm taking this opportunity to express my thoughts about what's going wrong in our present version of democratic rule.
1. Executive orders issued by the President are circumventing the legislative process. Rather than going to Congress and seeking support from legislators, the President merely signs an executive order and secures immediate law of his own making.
Now we know that federal agencies can issue their own lawlike rules and regulations; and these can be subsequently contravened by a sitting President. But then the situation is compounded when a President simply can write law.
2. The President has the right to establish his own set of tariffs on imported goods from abroad. It's amazing to me that he doesn't have to ask any agency to go along with his decisions! He controls the inflow of goods and services from other countries, virtually. This has led to a trade war with China, because he has declared it!
3. The President submits his own recommendations for federal judges without input and evaluation from the Bar Association and other institutions of jurisprudence.
4. The leading senator of the party in control of the Senate sets the agenda of bills to be considered by the Senate, there being no need to have some working, impartial committee in the Senate or even of, say, in the federal judiciary to construct or approve it. Thus, Senator Reid held control of the Senate in his day and Senator McConnell in the present term.
Thus, we have come upon an autocratic ruler of the United States, Donald Trump, President of the US, and the doers as he would have them to do, I believe.
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