USA: Checks and balances have begun to fail

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics ... story.html

I'm thinking that if we want the U.S. government to remain representative, we might have to move to a semi-presidential or even parliamentary system. Presidents apparently need the ability to act quickly and decisively, leading to them running end-around Congress, rendering it increasingly irrelevant. A legislative branch that is able to move more quickly may be the solution here, and we might want to start looking to the parliamentary and semi-presidential systems of the world for ideas of reform.

My personal feeling is that Congress became more powerful vis-a-vis the Executive Branch during the Obama years. The Judiciary is gaining power, too. This makes me a little less fearful of a Trump Presidency.

Executive orders let presidents make their own laws now.

"Executive orders have the full force of law when they take authority from a legislative power which grants its power directly to the Executive by the Constitution"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_order

Trump could make a lot of changes, very quickly.

Gingrich suggests Trump should issue 200 to 300 executive orders on his first day
http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/pre ... -executive

We shall see.

I think all 3 branches are way too powerful.

It's like in thousands of years of government no one has yet figured out that a single individual is not only fragile, but impossible to rely on for any sort of objectivity precisely because it is a sole individual... so, the relevant question here is, can an ego destroy their country in the 21st century? That's Assad... can an individual destroy those outside, though? One would think 95% of the rest of the world could stop them, but can they use executive orders to create a nuclear holocaust?