Trump's Iran Strike Shows the Urgent Need for Congress to Claw Back its War Powers
Trump's Iran Strike Shows the Urgent Need for Congress to Claw Back its War Powers
The president's unprovoked, unilateral attack builds on the terrible and unconstitutional precedent set by his predecessors
But they won’t. Business as usual. Insider trading. Denying healthcare. Forcing those struggling to pay for every minute aspect of life. Trying their best to turn America into a police state. Welcome to your 1984. Enjoy
100% of the R's, and 90+% of the D's, are too busy cashing their corporate/oligarch bribes to govern.
They were positioned to enact the will of the highest bidder — shadow written by corporate/lobbyist legal teams — so why would they care if 99.99% of voters want anything, when their 00.01% employers want the opposite?
...Congress to claw back...
That would require courage and determination, which means it's not going to happen, because those are qualities Congress no longer possesses.
That ship has sailed. It's probably only now starting to dawn on some of them that they've effectively abdicated their powers and they'll never get them back.
Too late. We're already in a dictatorship.