Seems the Constitution may in fact be a suicide pact
So here we are with a president who, most would agree, is insane. The Constitution gives us two ways to remove him: (1) Impeachment and conviction, or (2) The 25th Amendment (google it). Both of these methods currently rely on Republicans acting responsibly. Don't hold your breath.
If/When Trump loses the election, there will be nothing to stop him from doing everything in his power (until January 20th) to destroy our democracy.
Actually, if we hold the House and take the Senate, he will only have until January 3rd before the new congress is sworn in. Nonetheless, that will give him more than enough time to unleash all the demons of hell on America, and perhaps the entire world.
Assuming we survive this madman, we definitely need a third, more effective way to remove a mentally deranged president. But it must obviously be a way that cannot be used for partisan purposes. (i.e., Today's Republicans would use a hypothetical third way to oust a Dem president for cutting a fart.)
If you have any ideas on how we can avoid ever again finding ourselves where we are today, I'd like to hear them.
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The last 4 years I've been saying Donald and the Republicans have weaponized our beautiful Constitution.
They use it to their advantage, and ignore to their advantaged.
As the first poster suggested, get rid of Citizen United. Take the big money out of our politics.
Design and implement federal voting rules or regulations. We need to assure that all American citizens have the opportunity to vote without being disenfranchised or through intimidation.
Vet each Presidental candidate to assure the candidate does not pose a national security risk. Do the vetting early before too much has been invested - time, money, emotion, etc. has been invested.
Make financial disclosures mandatory, tax records, for instance. Have a specific time frame for this. If a candidate balks, they are deemed disqualified.
Return powers back to Congress that have been given, over the years, to the president.
Put teeth into Congresses ability to subpoena the Administrative branch.
I don't know how, but have consequences when violating the Oath of Office - in regards to Congressional members who support a person, or political party over country. Personally, I'd like to see them all charged under the RICO Act.
Change the jurisdiction of the Department of Justice, FBI, etc from under the Administrative Branch to Congress, or a bipartisan group of citizens. Unfortunately, Donald has proven these Departments are not safe under the Administrative Branch.
Donald's administration has proven that no department or agency is safe. Each and every one of them has been compromised, looted, defanged, changed against the best interest of our nation. How do we stop this from happening again? I don't know. I don't want to see drastic changes that could cause more harm in the future when a conscientious president in power.
The United States, through its burps and growing pains, has run fairly well since its founding. Yet, it took one man to destroy the faith and trust in EVERY aspect of our government, including our Congress. Just one man! ONE MAN!
I wish I had the answers. We have to be careful because our cure could be worse than the current disaster.
I do know that uncontrolled dark money, and an unvetted, foreign money debtor has posed a national security risk, and let's add nepotism (paid or otherwise) to that as well.
I'm just rattling on, and don't know if anything I typed here would help. I am thrilled VP Biden is leading in the polls, and he remains healthy, so we can start repairing inept Donald's huge mess.
