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ApeReeSki's avatar

Fear of failure seems to be a universally upregulated driver of executive privilege. The operative constraint on executive overreach should be a homework question for decision makers: What are you considering to in fact do, that can only be done by you? Any waffled answer is a consensus breaker, and negates a claim to "will of the people".

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Mark Foster Wilson's avatar

After reading this I then saw this on the BBC website:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c056zqn6vvyo

‘Tulsi Gabbard now says Iran could produce nuclear weapon 'within weeks'’

Gave me pause to put it mildly…

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Austin Kleon's avatar

Good on Tom — next time I'll suggest it myself!

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