• Mulligrubs@lemmy.world
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    11 days ago

    In my opinion it was the creation of the CIA, and Nixon was the last nail in the coffin… with Reagan as a result.

    Once you have “black budgets” with no transparency, it’s over… it’s just a matter of time, as it grows exponentially every budget.

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      11 days ago

      I agree. This starts with Nixon and Ford giving a pardon was a huge mistake. The US needs to have a president actually go down. Until then, it’s really a dictatorship.

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          9 days ago

          Well that was devised before parties existed. The most popular candidate was president and the person with the second most votes became vice president. It was a way to force compromise but, of course, we amended the constitution to have P and VP run together.

          So, originally, if the president died, vacated office, etc., it was the second most popular presidential candidate that became president.