It feels like the deeper you dig into how things really work, the more depressing it gets. Curious what examples people have.

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    our professor used the japanese internment camp case to teach us about the limits of presidential power. indiscriminately shoving people into camps was a thing the president was 100% allowed to do to us citizens. the president, the court, the congress were all like “yup sounds American to us.”