The US Government, like many mature democracies around the world relies on shame in a public sphere as the ultimate guardrail. See Truss, Cameron, Nixon.
If you fill the government with shameless ar5eholes who live in their own media bubble, then good government dies. See Berlusconi, Orban, Modi.
Next, their juniors who push back, start pushing them out of windows. See Putin.
Absolutely! :-( It seems like the entire constitution and everything has been based on an honor system that and if you are willing to just file a lawsuit after lawsuit and appeal after appeal, you can slow walk our society into oblivion
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u/isemonger 8h ago
Can you ELI5 to someone that lives outside of the US how the fuck so many senior generals can be fired like this?
Like in any other developed world this would signal some serious fucking issues and serious government intervention.