“But over time, the executive branch grew exceedingly powerful. Two world wars emphasized the president’s commander in chief role and removed constraints on its power. By the second half of the 20th century, the republic was routinely fighting wars without its legislative branch, Congress, declaring war, as the Constitution required. With Congress often paralyzed by political conflict, presidents increasingly governed by edicts.”
If you feel like hunting for it I’d be happy to look at it, but I’m not gonna go digging in your posts for who knows how long to find it.
https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/25671921
I sadly don’t think that’s the case. I still talk to people every day who are parroting 50s-era anti-communist propaganda straight from the mouth of the CIA unironically. Circumstances may be dire, that I don’t dispute, but I feel like they’re going to have to be considerably worse before most people are willing to overcome their indoctrinated bias and start considering alternatives that don’t involve ‘maybe make capitalism suck a little less?’