{"id":6296,"date":"2025-02-19T18:36:41","date_gmt":"2025-02-19T23:36:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/?p=6296"},"modified":"2025-03-24T08:35:31","modified_gmt":"2025-03-24T12:35:31","slug":"a-dictatorship-by-any-other-name-is-still-a-dictatorship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2025\/02\/19\/a-dictatorship-by-any-other-name-is-still-a-dictatorship\/","title":{"rendered":"A Dictatorship by Any Other Name is Still A Dictatorship"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;Unitary Executive&#8221; = &#8220;Dictatorship&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Call a spade a spade, and a coup a coup.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is unquestionably unconstitutional.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This must be stopped or America won&#8217;t be &#8220;America&#8221; anymore.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Republicans need to step up and stop this, too, or else there won&#8217;t be <em>either <\/em>party anymore &#8211; Democrat or Republican &#8211; there will just be  the wannabe-king and his &#8220;court&#8221; of supporters, any one of whom could find themselves shut out at his slightest displeasure. Congress would become nothing more than a rubber stamp, and the courts would cease to have any meaningful function. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">All it would take to turn this into an Absolute Monarchy is for the office of President to become hereditary. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">MAGA was never about &#8220;making America great again,&#8221; because America was never any of <strong>[*waves hands*]<\/strong> <em>this <\/em>in the first place &#8211; it was never a kingdom or a dictatorship or a &#8220;unitary executive,&#8221; and so far nothing about this is making anything &#8220;great&#8221; again for anyone besides a very, very, very few people at the very top. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">They should&#8217;ve called it &#8220;Make America Not America Anymore.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Unitary Executive&#8221; = &#8220;Dictatorship&#8221; &#8211; call it what it is. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"webmentions_disabled_pings":false,"webmentions_disabled":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"uspol","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"federated","footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,17],"tags":[590,89,385,421],"class_list":["post-6296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-society","tag-dictatorship","tag-law","tag-politics","tag-united-states","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pimUj-1Dy","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4952,"url":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2017\/01\/31\/the-march-to-tyranny\/","url_meta":{"origin":6296,"position":0},"title":"The March to Tyranny","author":"Keith Survell","date":"January 31, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"How quickly a country can fall...","rel":"","context":"In &quot;My Opinion&quot;","block_context":{"text":"My Opinion","link":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/category\/personal\/my-opinion\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":6421,"url":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2025\/07\/04\/rip-usa\/","url_meta":{"origin":6296,"position":1},"title":"RIP USA","author":"Keith Survell","date":"July 4, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"RIP, United States of America: In Congress, July 4, 1776 - July 4, 2025.","rel":"","context":"In &quot;My Opinion&quot;","block_context":{"text":"My Opinion","link":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/category\/personal\/my-opinion\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":494,"url":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2005\/05\/11\/goodbye-america\/","url_meta":{"origin":6296,"position":2},"title":"Goodbye, America","author":"Keith Survell","date":"May 11, 2005","format":false,"excerpt":"Goodbye, America - Hello, REAL ID. 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