Except for the part where the fertility rate in El Salvador is higher than it is in the USA. If we're becoming more like them, our fertility rate should be increasing.
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If all the money in the world can only make you look as good as elon musk or jeff bezos there is truly some things money can't buy.
WSJ Drops Shock Exposé on Elon Musk’s Alleged Attempts to Impregnate X Influencers — ‘To Reach Legion Level Before the Next Apocalypse’
Built to fail? The Constitution worked, more or less, for over 237 years and 44 different presidents. It hasn't even failed yet now, although it is in a lot of danger.
It's the job of Congress to stop the President from doing this, via impeachment. However, in a democracy the people get to choose their leaders and if the people elect not just a man like Trump to be President but also a majority in Congress to support him almost unconditionally, then the people get what they voted for.
Even now, Republicans in Congress fear that they will not be re-elected if they oppose Trump. Thus they're still carrying out the will of the people.
That's a good point, and I suppose that someone sympathetic to Trump might think that he was being unfairly prosecuted after other presidents hadn't been.
I disagree with your implication that a former president should always be punished for having broken the law. The rules do need to be different for presidents than for ordinary people.
A prince, when by some urgent circumstance or some impetuous and unforeseen accident that very much concerns his state, compelled to forfeit his word and break his faith, or otherwise forced from his ordinary duty, ought to attribute this necessity to a lash of the divine rod: vice it is not, for he has given up his own reason to a more universal and more powerful reason; but certainly ’tis a misfortune: so that if any one should ask me what remedy? “None,” say I, “if he were really racked between these two extremes: 'Let him see to it that it be not a loophole for perjury that he seeks.' He must do it: but if he did it without regret, if it did not weigh on him to do it, ’tis a sign his conscience is in a sorry condition."
Montaigne' Essays, book 3 chapter 1
It's one thing to break a law with the belief (perhaps unjustified) that doing so is necessary for the good of the nation and quite another to do to because power protects you from deserved punishment, but how can the law itself make this distinction?
Even the Trump appointees seem like the sort of people who would want to defend the rule of law at least to preserve their own (and therefore the court's) power, so I wonder how each of the six "conservative" judges was convinced to rule the way that he or she did. I don't imagine all of them doing it for the same reason. Maybe some were rewarded for their votes and others wanted to see Trump wreck things (Alito and his flag come to mind) but did some actually think that it was a good idea or the correct legal decision?
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It sounds like the point they're trying to make is that Americans don't want to have children because things in the USA are getting bad, but if that was the correct explanation then we would expect to see (1) people in countries where it's worse having even fewer children, which we don't see, and (2) people in countries where it's better having more children, which we also don't see.
It's annoying to repeatedly read the same completely unsupported explanations for fertility rate declines.