GOVERNING BY EXECUTIVE ORDERS: SHOULD WE JUST CANCEL CONGRESS.

ICHEOKU says when salt loses its taste it is no longer salt but sand and it is dumped, thrown away. By the same token, when an arm of the government tasked with legislation abdicates from its function, forcing the other arm, the executive, to legislate through issuance of orders, it questions the continuing relevance of that arm of government which abandoned its function. 

Democracy is about the battling of ideas where the superior one usually prevails but the current political environment in the United States of America has made it difficult for this trite democracy imperative to continue to thrive. There is no more healthy debates and agreements on issues in the Congress, hence reaching a bipartisan understanding on anything is often very difficult if not impossible. This impasse have led to stalled law making in the Congress to the extent that they are now nearly redundant and wasteful as an institution to warrant their continued existence.  

The two main political parties in America now see each other as foes with irreconcilable differences instead of the opposition parties which they are supposed to be and which fights to win the battle of superiority of ideas. This paralysis in legislation is not what American people want nor deserve or bargained from their legislative body. Also nature abhors of vacuum and this inadvertently created vacuum is what has been filled by presidential executive orders and you ask yourself what then is the use of having an arm of the government which function has been subsumed by another arm of the government. 

The most devastating effect of such making of law through executive orders is that the "law" fluctuates and varies every four years depending on who is in the White House, thus making a nonsense of everything which America stands for and represents, including viability and stability and a place where investments could be safely made without fear of it being rubbished overnight. But when every president uses executive orders to cancel out a previous president's executive orders, it makes law fluidly and dependent on the whims of the president in power. It does not bode well for continuity and does not encourage investments and treaties between countries.

This executive order anomaly is exploited by both parties, almost uniformly and equally, which leads to a president always wiping out every executive order which was issued by the president  it succeeded. The latest of this legislating by the executive have seen Joe Biden issue over 27 of such orders within a few weeks of taking power, which is targeted at canceling everything which President Donald John Trump brought about. It is also important to note that President Donald John Trump's executive orders similarly targeted former President Barack Obama's own executive orders and sought to wipe them out completely. ICHEOKU says for how long will this seesaw, back and forth cancelations of a former president's executive orders by a succeeding president continue in America. 

For how long will investors and other countries continue to live on the edge over what an incoming administration might do to their investments in America. Imagine what those who invested in the Keystone XL pipeline project as well as the Southern border wall will be thinking right now over what became the fate of their investments. Imagine what those Arab neighbors of Israel will be thinking now after signing peace treaties with Israel only to now have a new American administration in Washington DC which thinks differently. How about those companies which invested in fracking who are now left hanging in the balance regarding the business decisions which they made by investing in fracking just because an anti oil administration is now in the White House. 

All these turpsy turvy in governance would have been avoided had Congress lived up to its primary obligation and effectively legislated on these matters and made them law. But no, the the Congress is busy with members fighting each other while relegating their duty which brought about this executive orders and the whole country is suffering as a result. Why must American people's lives be run by executive orders on a four to four years basis. Why is Congress no longer doing their job of legislating?  Is there still any relevance for the continued existence of Congress if they won't do the job for which they exist as one of the three arms of government. It calls for a review of their relevance and to an extent, whether it is still wise and productive to keep the Congress or should it just be canceled. #CancelCongress.