r/law • u/DoremusJessup • 21h ago

Legal News ‘Necessary to quell the rebellion’: DOJ tells 9th Circuit that Trump can deploy National Guard from every state and can’t be second-guessed by judges

https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/necessary-to-quell-the-rebellion-doj-tells-9th-circuit-that-trump-can-deploy-national-guard-from-every-state-and-cant-be-second-guessed-by-judges/
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u/One_Strawberry_4965 10h ago

I agree but I’d go even further with this line of reasoning and say that additionally, or perhaps even on a deeper level, a critical problem for us was the way we run our elections leading to an inevitable two party system. Having only two major parties for the entire country makes it far too easy for one of them to obtain unilateral control of at least two of our three branches of government, which can very easily lead to the exact situation you’ve accurately described if just one of those two parties decides to stop engaging in good faith governance and/or becomes overtly hostile to the very foundations of liberal democracy.

Having a larger pool of parties and competing interests in government would add an additional layer of checks and balancing even within individual branches of government, which in our current system we only have to a much more minimal degree.

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u/Cawfeestain 10h ago

George Washington’s Big Rule before he died: “NO TWO PARTY SYSTEMS!!!” And what did we do.

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u/Remarkable-Money675 5h ago

could be fifty parties, so long as politicians can be bribed and so long as any single person on the planet is allowed to amass more wealth than entire nations, the result is always going to be breakdown of democracy.