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A chat on subreddit /r/PoliticalCompassMemes
human
&gt;The president of the United States is probably the single most powerful office in the "Western world", if not by that extension the world.

They haven't had power for 50 years and this is evident by the constant stonewalling Obama and Trump encountered when they wanted to actually enforce their agenda with the most recent example happening with the generals of the United States refusing Trump's orders to pull out of the middle east.

&gt;I mean, here we are complaining about the President who you think should have more power. If only he did and was a Communist as people say, we need Marxism-Leninism-Bidenism

While I am arguing in favor of the president having more power it's tied into the idea that the president has zero power at all when it comes to enforcing agendas that challenge the establishment. If Trump can't get a wall on the southern border or can't end foreign wars then the president simply has no major powers.
gpt
The President has immense power if through nothing else then through the image of leading the country. Obama said a few words and support for gay marriage shot up immediately. Trump tries a coup and a year later the Republican party is falling over themselves to call their opposition child eaters. Even if the president is stonewalled officially my point stands lol. It's good that the President can't function as a fucking autocrat. He still has immense power globally through merely holding the office. Every American knows who the president is and what he thinks. There's basically no elected head of state with that much influence and sway.

Also as if building a border wall "challenges the establishment". Right wing populism is such a brainworm ideology. The fact that something as idiotic as a full border wall was even considered shows the power of the US president. America wants to destroy its neighbors and then spend humongous amounts of money for a barrier that in reality wouldn't do much to stop most of the things they supposedly care about stopping. At best it might curb a few people who don't have a ladder and a pair of clippers but that's it.

Again, just because the president isn't an autocrat doesn't make him powerless. There's still no one political office that is as powerful. Isn't that like, what Americans like? Freedom, division of power? Yet you're basically the only country in your own circle with a combined head of state and head of government