The most frequent criticism I get is that I’m all diagnosis and no prescription. And my response is always the same: If I knew how to fix this thing, I’d tell you.
It’s not like I’m holding back on the solution just to keep you reading. I promise.
I don’t know how to stop creeping fascism. No one does. That’s because these systems are too big, too complex to either be fully understood or consciously “fixed.”
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It's not like I'm holding back?Give me a break. You know perfectly well you and most all the other talking/writing heads are holding back. You ARE holding back, because you don't really want Trump gone.
You just want to milk this thing for 3&1/2 more years (at least), whining and whining about how bad this godawefull Trump/MAGA is, if only someone knew how to stop it(i.e. we just need to become a nation of hapless whiners like you).
What I don't understand is all the commentary on how bad things are under Trump and how worse they are going to be all seem to omit the one obvious constitutional solution to the constitutional crisis Trump is deliberately creating. That solution is calling a constitutional convention, as the constitution provides for, to write a new constitution and discard the old one, with it's manifest defects.
Of course in today's political climate every interest group would tend to want to through something in for itself. But if this process could out of realization of the present danger somehow circumscribe this tendency andoncentrate on the present danger which Trump and MAGA have made evident, the danger of the present constitution's allowance for a strong executive and it's elimination, the process would immediately resolve our present situation and it's dangers.
And of course a big advantage of this course of action is that it completely short circuits the overriding problem with most other courses of action, that is the present control of the GOP over the 3 branches of the federal government; executive, legislative, and judicial.
The lack of discussion regarding this obvious solution to our present difficulties creates a big question in my mind over the sincerity of the present Democratic Party /Opposition in complaining about the present Trump/MAGA regime. It's more like that old Mark Twain saw about the weather; everybody's always talking and complaining about it, but nobody ever does anything about it.
The most frequent criticism I get is that I’m all diagnosis and no prescription. And my response is always the same: If I knew how to fix this thing, I’d tell you.
It’s not like I’m holding back on the solution just to keep you reading. I promise.
I don’t know how to stop creeping fascism. No one does. That’s because these systems are too big, too complex to either be fully understood or consciously “fixed.”
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It's not like I'm holding back?Give me a break. You know perfectly well you and most all the other talking/writing heads are holding back. You ARE holding back, because you don't really want Trump gone.
You just want to milk this thing for 3&1/2 more years (at least), whining and whining about how bad this godawefull Trump/MAGA is, if only someone knew how to stop it(i.e. we just need to become a nation of hapless whiners like you).
What I don't understand is all the commentary on how bad things are under Trump and how worse they are going to be all seem to omit the one obvious constitutional solution to the constitutional crisis Trump is deliberately creating. That solution is calling a constitutional convention, as the constitution provides for, to write a new constitution and discard the old one, with it's manifest defects.
Of course in today's political climate every interest group would tend to want to through something in for itself. But if this process could out of realization of the present danger somehow circumscribe this tendency andoncentrate on the present danger which Trump and MAGA have made evident, the danger of the present constitution's allowance for a strong executive and it's elimination, the process would immediately resolve our present situation and it's dangers.
And of course a big advantage of this course of action is that it completely short circuits the overriding problem with most other courses of action, that is the present control of the GOP over the 3 branches of the federal government; executive, legislative, and judicial.
The lack of discussion regarding this obvious solution to our present difficulties creates a big question in my mind over the sincerity of the present Democratic Party /Opposition in complaining about the present Trump/MAGA regime. It's more like that old Mark Twain saw about the weather; everybody's always talking and complaining about it, but nobody ever does anything about it.