President is the Sr. Civilian Leader.
The protocol got inherited from a time long ago when the Civilian leadership knew their position of power came from 2 places, the loyalty of the armed services not to the leaders, but to the nation and the trust the nation through voting put in the civilian leadership. The president is in service to the citizens to be that suprema commander, but it is the citizens in control. If voting is not trustworthy the entire chain is very weak, and each party knows it very well. If the senate was still chosen by the state government and state constitutional process we would not be in this mess. Guess we are in a countdown to balanced budget, unfortunately it will be forced by our creditors no matter how many ships we have in our navy and planes in our air force. Everything both parties call Freedom will die in a credit crisis.
If the senate was still chosen by the state government and state constitutional process we would not be in this mess
That’s the money shot right there. But that also depends on the integrity of the state legislatures. In Georgia there isn’t much but we wouldn’t have two socialists. So there’s that.