Europe is too much of a soft touch

[greynotsoold]

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 old, and that has had what a mere seventeen amendments added?! that makes his job seemingly that bit more authoritarian...

I think that if he, and every other president (and Congress) of my lifetime, at least, operated within the confines of the US Constitution, there would be far less authoritarianism in this country.