Problem is, the president is head of the executive and is supposed to give orders and tell the government employees what to do, within the law. How can the executive orders be avoided?
Most people don't do what they can.Trump can do whatever he wants because Putin got him elected and most people haven't voted for him, or voted for him and agree.
I hadn't noticed the strong link between guilt and responsibility. I just think that people are responsible. But now it makes sense as a strategy:
This is the point where one person is singled out as the cause of the trouble and is expelled or killed by the group. This person is the scapegoat. Social order is restored as people are contented that they have solved the cause of their problems by removing the scapegoated individual, and the cycle begins again.
Trump is a scapegoat that takes all the guilt so people are not motivated to act.
Coincidentally this and Girard in general are Peter Thiel's favorite theory so my guess is that it is done on purpose.
Which leaves the question how people can be motivated to act according to their abilities. All the skills are there. How do they know that it is their turn to act to maintain international law?
The US is illegally bombing Iran without repercussions. No sanctions from anybody, hardly any criticism from the allies. To me, that's still a hegemon.
Similarly, among all the engineers, who selects the competent ones? We have market economies because central planning has shown its limits. Shouldn't we trust the process and support the market in figuring it out?
Then it's a dumb take that you are responsible since 1970.
But since you have been an adult, as a member of a democracy, you are responsible for what the democracy does. That's the deal. The election decides. If the majority decides something bad, bad luck, that's still shared among everybody.
Die AfD ist aber anders als Wasser für nass nicht der Auslöser von Nationalsozialismus. Im Gegenteil, es wird argumentiert, dass die AfD schlecht ist, weil sie nationalsozialistisch ist.
Wenn Menschen die AfD gut finden, sich nicht als Nazis identifizieren und die AfD nicht als Nazis erkennen, wie werden sie darauf reagieren, wenn man sie als Nazis beschimpft?
Problem is, the president is head of the executive and is supposed to give orders and tell the government employees what to do, within the law. How can the executive orders be avoided?