"It's your fucking responsibility to stop him."

[stevegc]

44. It's quite revealing to read so many comments from Americans saying "there's nothing we can do."

Theoretically, democratic institutions, the system of checks and balances, and legislation should be enough to prevent a president from becoming an autocrat.

In the democratic world, there is no such a thing as a president doing whatever he wants without suffering any consequences. A Trump would never exist in a country like Brazil, Chile, or France. He would have been impeached a long time ago.

It's time to question whether the United States is not, in fact, a dictatorship. A country that is absolutely powerless before its ruler can be called anything but a democracy. If 330 million people are being held hostage by a single man, why are we treating this country like a conventional political regime?

They talked so much about Maduro, but even he didn't have that much power in Venezuela.