And – extremely important – the person we elect is virtually compelled to follow up on the promises of his or her platform, and do for the people who elected him or her what he or she said they would do! And the “loyal opposition” in Congress and the rest of government will hold feet to the fire when the wishes of the citizenry are not being respected.
To a remarkable extent, the occupant of the Oval Office, like the one who’s been there the last eight years, can be held in check even if he wants to “fundamentally transform America.” Barack Obama, who has never respected the members of Congress or wanted to negotiate and reason from a position of equal power, has taken way too many “executive decisions,” creating 33 new regulatory agencies and appointed “czars” over them, reporting only to him and not to Congress, corrupting the very process of our historic government! But if those members had the...