This is a MUST READ. ThinkProgress issues a warning to all of us.

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9. These are the things we must correct...

It will take time and a strong will--the will of many.


https://thinkprogress.org/democrats-will-botch-the-resistance-against-trump-1f8c211c7b68#.6dkq4ko6w


...............If liberal democracy survives these next four years, then liberals must confront the fact that our current system of government has failed. We cannot have a system that makes a president out of the guy who came in second in the presidential election twice in sixteen years, or that allows lawmakers to suppress the vote of their opponents’ supporters, or that allows those same lawmakers to effectively choose who gets to vote for them, or that allows the minority party to sabotage a president’s entire agenda and then campaign on the fact that nothing gets done, or that places the entirety of American democracy at the mercy of a political court.

Yet we must also balance this terrible new knowledge with Justice Marshall’s broader lesson that the rule of law depends on universal rules. In the state of nature, the strong man always prevails. It is only by subjecting everyone to the same laws that the rest of us can hope to hold this strong man accountable for his own transgressions.

What the rule of law does not depend on, however, is the specific set of rules we currently operate under. “Whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive” of basic human rights including the right of self-governance, the Declaration of Independence proclaims, “it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it.”