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[–] merc@sh.itjust.works 2 points 4 days ago

Theoretically we can fire the president. That was one of the situations they considered when they created the system. They just didn't understand that political parties were inevitable, and that they'd become so strong that a corrupt party would protect a corrupt president. And that that same corrupt party would corrupt the news so that ignorant people would believe their lies and keep voting for them.

It should be hard to fire the president though. Otherwise you know that Mitch McConnell would have found some way to fire Obama.

Really, we need political systems to be designed by mathematicians or scientists who understand Game Theory and can really figure out how to prevent collusion. A bunch of 20-something-year-olds in the 1700s did a fairly good job of coming up with a decent non-monarchy (both otherwise very similar to British) system of government. But, I would hope a new country starting today would not make some of the same mistakes.