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[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago

The US founders were on to something by trying to break up power and have each group kept I’m check but that too is failing.

Yeah, separation of powers is a pretty old and workable concept, 8 times older than the whole history of the US, and has worked for most democratic countries since.