• WarmSoda@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    The president in particular is very much a figure head - he wields no real power whatsoever.

    Yeah, I used to think like that in high school.

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      1 year ago

      It’s a modified quote from Hitchhiker’s Guide. I am being a little dramatic with keeping the quote so tight, but in many ways I view it as mostly analogous and true.

      The US, as well as most countries just seem to be a few corporations in a trench coat right now. The president or PMs largely do act as a figurehead and just giant distractions from the ineffectiveness/corruption of congress/parliaments and the corruption of corporations running things behind the scenes.