Europe is too much of a soft touch

[Britkid]

You do know that authoritarian politicians can be either left or right?

Do I need to give a list of authoritarian lefties?

All politicians want to be authoritarian, it is what they signed up for. It is that Obama leads an executive that executes its authority using a Constitution written over two hundred year ago, and that has had what a mere seventeen amendments added?! That makes his job seemingly that bit more authoritarian...

#1 Not exactly who I had in mind #2 The Constitution declares what the government CANNOT do and to that point grey is correct, if the Constitution was actually followed there would be far less authoritarianism in the Legislative and Executive branches of government.


And there are 27 Amendments to the Constitution, 26 really seeing how the 21st undoes the 18th.....if you're going to take digs at the Constitution at least take a fucking second to understand it or study it....who knows, maybe you'll find it interesting instead of just taking it for granted and assuming a lot of bullshit about it.

It is over 200 years old and yet including the original ten there have been only 27 amendments...

That truly is ridiculous, Constitutions need to change with the times, or else you are stuck with an ancient Conservative system. The US once claimed leadership of the 'free' world, but as the world has opened up, its Constitution has eroded its influence, and has now in some measures been overtaken by China in both economic size and hegemony, and in due course India will overtake the US too.

It is exactly the same arrogance that cost my Country hegemony; the refusal to change with the times, to use powers other than military to get the job done, it is so disappointing and frustrating, as the US was supposed to be different...