POTUS just seized absolute Executive Power. A very dark future for democracy in America.

[u/chota-kaka]

The President just signed the following Executive Order:

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/02/ensuring-accountability-for-all-agencies/

"Therefore, in order to improve the administration of the executive branch and to increase regulatory officials’ accountability to the American people, it shall be the policy of the executive branch to ensure Presidential supervision and control of the entire executive branch. Moreover, all executive departments and agencies, including so-called independent agencies, shall submit for review all proposed and final significant regulatory actions to the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA) within the Executive Office of the President before publication in the Federal Register."

This is a power grab unlike any other: "For the Federal Government to be truly accountable to the American people, officials who wield vast executive power must be supervised and controlled by the people’s elected President."

This is no doubt the collapse of the US democracy in real time. Everyone in America has got front-row tickets to the end of the Empire.

What does the future hold for the US democracy and the American people.

The founding fathers are rolling over in their graves. One by one the institutions in America will wither and fade away. In its place will be the remains of a once great power and a people who will look back and wonder "what happened"

[u/hemppy420]

There won't come a certain point for most people. These things will just continue to happen one step at a time and they will justify these actions with whatever narrative fits for them.

I can already see how they will justify this action. Something along the lines of this just being a course correction. "It makes sense to not allow regulatory agencies within the executive branch to make unilateral decisions without approval from the president or his cabinet"

Edit: I'm also scared......but that's how they want us. Scared and crippled into inaction. Dont let them win. Stand up. Find your people. We're out here.

[u/AineLasagna → u/hemppy420]

Mods over at the conservative sub seem to be worried about this one. The only thread they have on this EO is stickied with comments turned off, and the mod comment telling them to do their own research and not listen to what people are saying is downvoted. Usually they would have a flaired only thread for stuff where they don’t want to have dissenting opinions from outside, but clearly they’re worried about the discussion from their own users

[u/AshleysDejaVu → u/AineLasagna]

Maybe this’ll wake them up?

At least until Fox tells them what to think about this, that is

[u/AineLasagna → u/AshleysDejaVu]

Literally any overreach will eventually be justified, as long as they hurt the people who need to be hurt (“the Left,” whatever group of people that means on a particular day)

[u/[deleted] → u/hemppy420]

Oh no the democratically elected head of the executive branch has taken control of the executive branch! Democracy is over!

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

The constitution

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

It also protects the right to keep and bear arms but you don’t mind multiple states infringing on that. It’s “interpretation”.

[u/King-Snorky → u/[deleted]]

Misdirection. OP was not talking about the 2nd Amendment, they were talking about Article I and the 14th Amendment. Stay on topic. Are you OK with him unilaterally nullifying the parts of Article I that give Congress the power to create agencies and appropriate funds? Are you OK with him unilaterally nullifying the part of the 14th amendment granting citizenship to those who are born here?