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ezbee: Some people have fallen in UK. In USA despite being caught out in lies no one steps down, and its continuing denial and deflection and look over there.

There is a good reason for that. In the UK like NZ the cabinet is composed entirely of democratically elected people. The prime minister is elected by parliament and must have a majority in parliament.

In USA the president usually appoints many random people to cabinet who were never elected and are not democratically accountable to anyone. Howard Lutnick is a typical example. During the creation of the constitution there were many contributors to the discussion who more or less wanted an elected monarchy, and for a life term. It shows.

The UK long ago pushed the royals out of government. Ironically that process was mostly completed by the time of George III. Royals since then tried and mostly failed to exert power over parliament before giving up the idea completely. In contrast, the compromises made during the creation of the American constitution meant Americans replaced George III with a slightly more accountable royal king, born in the USA.

It should not escape anyone's attention that most (though definitely not all) other ex-British colonies got their independence by simply asking nicely. The modern state of the USA was born out of lethal violence and they've never given it up.