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ButteryMales posted...

The purpose of separation of powers is taught to elementary school children.

But its taught to school children the way the founders intended and not how it actually plays out. The government is supposed to be 3 branches competing for power but instead its 2 parties competing for power in 3 arenas. If the same party controls 2 branches then the checks go unused. We saw this in Trumps first 2 years when Congress refused to investigate anything. That was unfathomable to the founders, they assumed of course the leader of Congress would want to take power from the executive and give it to themselves. The teamwork aspect of parties was something they failed to imagine.