Fuck Reagan
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A single individual as the head of a nations government cannot _possibly_ do "good." The best you can hope for is they don't totally shit themselves or destroy the founding arrangement.
This is the whole fucking reason we setup this country was to get away from this simple minded feudal mentality.
You were supposed to be primarily a citizen of your state and generally ignore and barely tolerate the federal institution that underpins the union. The asshole at the top of the chart was supposed to be the least meaningful person in the entire arrangement.
Roman civilization reached its peak as an empire/dictatorship, but the republic definitely helped set the foundation for it to become a hegemon. Byzantine would put in proper apparatus in place to ensure less insane successors took to the throne.
Also at the start of United States, only white men could vote, under the constant threat of a slave revolt and indigenous tribe skirmishes. Once all other mediterrenean powers like Carthage and Macedonia were subjugated, the Roman Republic began to disintegrate.
For President and Vice President. Again, states were always held in a higher status than the federal government, and many of them did allow more than just White men to vote in the elections they controlled. Which were more important as the State legislature had the authority to just assign (and RECALL) Senators to congress. We fucked that up with the 17th, badly.
> under the constant threat of a slave revolt and indigenous tribe skirmishes.
Hardly. The 3/5ths compromise is so incredibly misunderstood it blows my mind. It was meant to be a poison pill. It was a way for the north to get the south to sign into the union. They got to keep their slaves, they got some representation for them, but not enough to vouch safe them from the north, and hopefully enough to make the practice mostly unviable to continue.
The very next treaty the US signed into federal law was the Northwest Territories Treaty. It cleared all this up. No new states were ever allowed to have slaves. And any new state had just as much standing as the original 13.
Anyways.. point is.. there was zero "threat" of a slave revolt being a problem on any level other than the local plantation itself.
> powers like Carthage and Macedonia were subjugated, the Roman Republic began to disintegrate.
Those people had horses. They ran an entire empire using horses. I mean, history is illuminating, but to pretend it's a map that will magically repeat itself is absurd.