Hmm. I would suggest that the destruction of democracy has been happening over a period of years. Two instances are the presentation of the Affordable Care Act and this recent covid relief bill. With ACA, the legislators were not given sufficient time to read, study, question, and discuss the proposed legislation. They had to vote for it in order to see what was in it! That was irresponsible and antithetical to democracy. While the recent package has much to commend it, is also has some items that are unrelated to covid. Those non-covid items are not necessarily unwelcome, but they should have been handled separately from the covid legislation and from other unrelated issues. All these items should have been read, studied, understood, and discussed thoroughly before being voted on by any legislator.
Obama did not cause this situation for ACA any more than Trump caused it for covid packages. Rather, over the years it has become commonplace for [whoever does these things] to prepare legislation that is many pages long, would require hours to read and study, and still more hours or days to discuss and possibly amend. As a result, our legislators are not able to read and study some legislation thoroughly, if at all, before voting on it.
This is an abomination. I hope that the Biden administration will not have to deal with this oversized legislation. But who knows? The President does not write this stuff and does not package it for the legislators' consideration. Biden might experience the same situation unless someone, somewhere, gets a handle on the size and scope of legislation. Whoever prepares legislation should be instructed by supervisors or commanded by new laws to limit the size and scope of legislation so that each item can receive due consideration.
Bach is not noise, Madam. (Robert, in Two's Company)