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In reply to the discussion: Just spit balling but what can we do to put Hillary into her rightful place that is the White House? [View all]delisen
(6,042 posts)We accepted unfairness in presidential elections in 2000 in Florida. we accepted unfairness in 2004 in Ohio.
We accepted the rise in in voter suppression from 2010 onward. We accepted the use of the rise in voting machines that increased the likelihood of tampering from 2000 onward.
We accepted the refusal of Republic Senate Majority Leader to follow the Constitution and carry out the Constitutional role of the Senate to "advise and consent" in the appointment of a Supreme Court Justice.
We are accepting the fact that the citizens were not informed of Russian attacks upon us while those attacks were taking place.
We are now accepting the fact that Russian hacking attacks are continuing-they have not stopped. The president is ignoring the attacks which brought him into office and the ongoing attacks
If the future of our Democracy rests upon a belief that 2018 will be a fair election, our democracy-already severely damaged-will not survive past 2018.
To use a narrow "letter of the law" reading of the Constitution on rules for succession as an excuse for not fighting for the spirit of our Constitution is equivalent to not defending the Constitution.
when the "representative" part of our democracy fails, it is the people who have to defend the Constitution.