• aesthelete@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Our president is now our king, but really it’s only the presidential election that has constant campaigning for the next election.

    This isn’t really true. Campaigning takes up a large amount of time for even house members. They have two year terms and they spend much of that fending off primary challenges and then campaigning for the general election.

    • WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      It’s also not true because, in England/the UK, at least, the King was established as not being above the law by the Magna Carta and when Charles I tried to dispute that they cut his head off. The autocracy that the USA is setting up is far worse than a monarchy.

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      1 year ago

      Maybe that’s internal? I don’t see much house or senate campaigning until the months lead up to the elections (ad spends, yard signs, rallies, etc) though I will agree they are likely working on it the whole time