Are we following the Constitution?

The U.S. Constitution, among other things, defines how our federal government should work and the limits it has. It defines the three branches of government and the duties of each in order to maintain a democratic form of government. A weak legislature and/or a weak judicial branch, as the founders knew, would lead to an autocratic or dictatorship.

It appears to me we have a Republican Party majority that has seriously weakened the Legislative branch in favor of the Executive Branch and the President, and a Supreme Court that has given the President immunity and power to control all government agencies, including law enforcement agencies that were established by Congress as independent from the President, such as for consumer and environmental protection.

The only one that the Supreme Court said the President could not directly control is the Federal Reserve. They understood that when presidents and autocrats take control of it, the country’s economy ends up in double-digit inflation and economic disaster. If the President can appoint a yes man to the chairmanship and can influence a couple of directors, he has effective control of the Federal Reserve in a similar way he has with the FBI and Justice Department.

If any political party condones by action of inaction what our President is doing, I believe the Constitution is nullified and our democracy can be lost.