@dccommonsense Your credibility has never been in question except to brainwashed trolls. You’ve said “Jeffersonian small government democracy” as your guiding star for a loooong time and this is all consistent.
It's called "checks and balances" and it's why we have 3co-equal branches of govt. it's done as an autocrat protection measure and to protect a minority of Americans by oppression by the majority (known as "the tyranny of the majority"). It's been a feature (not a bug) since 1787.
Saw Nick Cave in Paris recently at the Accor Arena and I was really struck by that song Joy where he sings “We’ve all had too much sorrow, now it the time for joy.” I was thinking to myself, yeah that’s about right.