I've seen a fair amount of "so we just need to have our people become the dicators instead of Trump and his ppl" arguments made in earnest by some people on here and I really do think they need to take a step back and think for a moment about what they are saying.
The entire point of Bidens speech wasnt that "one president shouldnt have this power but others would be ok" it was that the presidency *shouldnt have this power period* & that it must be rejected. It is antithetical to the very idea of democracy.
I know that this site is repleat with nerds, so I'll use this analogy: there is a reason why Tolkien in LotR leaned in over and over and over again into the idea that there was no possible way to weild corrupting absolute power in a "good" way and that instead it must be rejected entirely.
