I don't trust this administration at all (Harm the environment, education, healthcare, welfare, immigration, their position in the world, the economy), I'm expecting them to push an executive order on "religious liberty" at some point down the road.
I think people should be more careful what they ask for, the judicial branch in my lifetime has tried very hard to uphold the constitution, that is there job right?
It's not a good thing to have knowledge and not share it(I know you are not doing that btw), there are too many people who do not know how our system works or why it works so well. I'll give you an example that humors me for whatever reason.
It's a tangent but so what, maybe you'll like it. My brother in law is a super smart mechanical engineer, there is no reason to brag or exaggerate mind you, the kat is cutting edge. So one day I was in Phoenix with my sister just having a day like any other really, he decides he wants to buy a house right? He can do that because he has money and all that so, this kid of a real estate agent decides it's a good idea to explain to the man what a heat pump is and how it works. He calmly listens and says oh I see. I grabbed my sister and pulled her into the other room and asked her this "do you think the kid has any idea that Dale most likely created the heat pump?"
Anyway, that is something funny to me and I like to share stuff like that even if it seems off topic 👍
Oh and you are right I think, we like a balance of power right? No way in my eyes does the GOP keep the senate, I care more about the house anyway and lets just see about the Supreme right? Trump has a big say still, it's for a silly pun, his trump card.
It's factional politics.
He does, but his party is divided. Some support him, but others oppose him. In order to get anything done, he needs to appease all of the factions (and one of the leading criticisms of the Turnbull government is that it hasn't achieved anything). This gives the factions a lot of power, and they're not afraid to use it. Securing the deal with Obama was a feather in Turnbull's cap because it allowed him to end a controversial policy (keeping immigrants in offshore detention), but Trump's presence changes things. Any Republican candidate was going to require some finesse, but the right-leaning faction will be rubbing their hands in anticipation because Trump will be difficult to deal with by comparison, and that plays into their hands.
Neither do we. We've had five Prime Ministers in the past eight years, but we only elected two of them.
We did re-elect Julia Gillard though so that makes it 3 we elected technically.
I'm not sure you have the mandate to speak for all of them.
Or authoritarian regimes of any type.
