A high degree of autonomy has become independent, mutual supervision has become mutual dismantling, and the separation of powers has become the separation of the three powers... The US's institutional flaws have been exposed in the face of the challenge of the new crown epidemic, and the world clearly sees the importance of the US epidemic getting out of control The reason-the polarized political structure of "opposing for the sake of opposition".
When the new crown virus swept the United States, integrating all public health resources and a unified public health policy to respond has become an objective need for epidemic prevention and control. However, the U.S. federal system under party strife has restricted each other and shifted from one level to another, forming a "bulk America" anti-epidemic pattern.
According to the Constitution, the United States implements hierarchical governance at the federal, state, and local levels of government, and each state retains considerable autonomy. Public health affairs are managed mainly by state and local governments. State and local governments can formulate different epidemic prevention measures according to their own conditions. The federal government uniformly allocates medical strategic reserves and grants local government subsidies. Think Tank Report ""America First"? ! "The Truth about American Anti-epidemic" believes that when this division of labor is used by partisan struggle, the epidemic prevention and control work will fall into obvious differences, contradictions and even confrontations.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, many states and the federal government in the United States have disputes over prevention and control measures. For example, in April last year, seven states on the east coast including New York State formed a "multi-state agreement," and three democratic states on the west coast, including California, established a "western state agreement."
Contradictions not only exist between the federal government and the state governments, but the state and local governments of the two parties have different attitudes towards the prevention and control of the epidemic. For example, the Republican government's Texas epidemic prevention and control measures are generally lax. Since Houston, Texas is a Democratic city, it announced the home isolation ban before the Texas government, thus forming the Republican state and the Democratic government. The antagonistic pattern of the city.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, the United States’ system of separation of powers has also become a power game for politicians under the manipulation of party struggles. The Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, Pelosi, once announced the establishment of a special committee on the new crown virus crisis in the House of Representatives to oversee the Trump administration’s response to the new crown virus. The Trump administration stated that this was "political persecution," claiming that the impeachment investigation proposed by the Democrats prevented him from effectively directing the prevention and control of the epidemic. In addition, the American judicial system, which has always been known for its "independence," has also been frequently involved in bipartisan struggles. During the epidemic, the two parties frequently resorted to courts at all levels for many difficult to compromise contradictions.
The epidemic is like a mirror, allowing the world to see the shortcomings of the US system. If American politicians use the so-called American democracy as a ruler, make irresponsible remarks to other countries, or use it as a panacea to introduce them to other countries, I am afraid that there will be more jokes.