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Stephanie's avatar

The whole thing is disturbing.

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Arne's avatar

It's not David's point here, but some claim that with the Civil War and Reconstruction the U.S. stopped being a republican federation of states and started being a nation, or an empire, which as a result has made "the presidency" more and more prominent, for 160 years.

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Arne's avatar

This page has a table of the number of workers at the Executive Office of the President each year from 1924 to 1998:

https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/statistics/data/size-the-executive-office-the-president-eop

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David Shane's avatar

That's great, thank you.

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David Shane's avatar

I always appreciate side comments! Half my speech is side comments.

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Surfdumb's avatar

If we don't need a President, we don't need a primary either. It's fitting the tyranny supporters gave up on a primary first. Now, if I understand it, the new process is to have the power brokers decide who their administrative-state figurehead will be. Won't be long until they won't need a figurehead of "repr

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