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Zohran Mamdani’s Upset Is a Seismic Moment for the Left (time.com)

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

a) Improvement doesn't necessailly mean good or effective in the long term.

b) The design ceases to matter when the execution doesn't match. Actions speak louder than words. We have also given the federal executive branch much more power than necessary, and they have continuously ceased more power, whether that be through intelligence agencies acting extrajudicially and unconstitutionally (NSA, CIA, FBI, etc.), waging war on drugs (and therefore, the American people) and militarizing the police, the president having immunity for all crimes that are "official acts", etc.

There is also the undemocratic Supreme Court, who with Marbury v Madison, gave themselves the ability to essentially unilaterally enact laws.

I can't comment on EU politics because I don't know much about it.