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CK_John

(10,005 posts)
Fri Mar 13, 2015, 10:14 AM Mar 2015

When the newest Senator leads the Senate in violation of the Logan Act and

a senior Senator daydreams out loud of a coup and the Secret Services are acting like they are in the St Louis police it is time to look for a Marine Corps Major General Smedley Butler.

A coup by any other name is a coup.

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When the newest Senator leads the Senate in violation of the Logan Act and (Original Post) CK_John Mar 2015 OP
I find it increasingly hard to believe that liberal democracy will survive in the US... First Speaker Mar 2015 #1

First Speaker

(4,858 posts)
1. I find it increasingly hard to believe that liberal democracy will survive in the US...
Fri Mar 13, 2015, 10:30 AM
Mar 2015

the chief reason? As Charles Pierce said so well yesterday, the GOP literally doesn't believe in the Supremacy Clause of the Constitution, and is talking seriously about nullification. That way lies the end of American democracy...

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