The political system is structurally incentivized to preserve and expand presidential power because there is significant financial benefit to dividing Americans through partisan politics, making it rational for candidates not to voluntarily constrain presidential power even if doing so would benefit the country

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Dan Carlin

Evidence Quote

there's a lot of money in dividing Americans from each other

Source

Dan Carlin Explains Why Autocracy in America Was Inevitable (Making Sense #433)Sam Harris
Created: 8/11/2026, 7:41:50 AM

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