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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWhat would you do if trump eliminated presidential term limits?
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Encourage President Obama to run again and serve 20 more years | |
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Assume the fix is in and fight like hell to get term limits reinstated | |
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Leave the country | |
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Not sure | |
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htuttle
(23,738 posts)...since that isn't possible in the real world. Trump can't eliminate presidential term limits anymore than he can fly.
irisblue
(32,968 posts)Lots of noise& chat, never happen.
fleur-de-lisa
(14,624 posts)'Take to the streets to take back my democracy'.
furtheradu
(1,865 posts)Tho I realize if he tried it, martial law would likely be in effect. At that point, for me, nuthin left to lose.
unblock
(52,196 posts)I'm looking forward to the midterms; it barely makes sense to talk about 2020. I'm really not focused on Benedict Donald running for a third term in 2024.
Besides, no way we're getting that constitutional amendment passed.
Lil Missy
(17,865 posts)FreepFryer
(7,077 posts)The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,674 posts)Presidential terms are in the Constitution.
Gabi Hayes
(28,795 posts)are on board
Thirty five governors are now Repub
Gabi Hayes
(28,795 posts)A Billionaire-Backed 'Movement' Is Dangerously Close to Calling a Constitutional Convention
The group hopes to mandate voter ID and dismantle public education, among other goals.
http://www.alternet.org/right-wing/billionaire-backed-movement-dangerously-close-calling-constitutional-convention
Read Democracy in Chains
It's all there
Been in the works for 60+ years:
The movements ultimate goal is capitalism free from government interference, and a government essentially stripped to maintaining law and order and national defense. Its adherents want to privatize most public services, especially public schools and Social Security. They have adopted the language of conservatism, and have successfully hijacked the Republican Party in the process, but they are not conservative in the traditional sense. Most people would not support the movements extreme libertarian vision if its adherents didnt couch it in appeals to a benign personal freedom.
The final prescription of Buchanans career was constitutional revolutiona rewriting of the rulebook to unleash free-market fundamentalism and prevent majorities of voters from ever being able to effect change. This revolution would turn the Constitutions checks and balances into locks and bolts, and can be heard in present-day calls by Republican governors and legislators for a convention of the states to amend the Constitution.
https://www.kirkusreviews.com/features/nancy-maclean/
onenote
(42,698 posts)It still takes ratification by 3/4 of the states to change the Constitution. That's 38 states. In addition, while there may be 35 repub governors, the repubs control both houses of the state legislatures and the governorship (i.e. the necessary trifecta to push through a demand for a constitutional convention) in only 28 states.
Gabi Hayes
(28,795 posts)In an email sent to supporters, Mark Meckler, a professional Tea Party campaigner for COS, said, when we succeed in getting 34 states to pass our legislation, a convention will be called where the states can propose amendments to
Get the federal government out of our healthcare system.
Impose term limits on Congress.
Balance the budget.
Mandate nationwide voter ID.
Take back our education systems.
Limit federal power."
did you read the article?
scares the crap out of me
Even scarier....rules made up on the spot;
Anything can happen:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2014/10/21/a-constitutional-convention-could-be-the-single-most-dangerous-way-to-fix-american-government/?tid=a_inl-amp&utm_term=.cbe561169bb1
Hoyt
(54,770 posts)to act/sound like them?
rock
(13,218 posts)Obama, president for life isn't that bad of a deal!
Agschmid
(28,749 posts)ecstatic
(32,685 posts)Trump doesn't appear to care about the constitution. He thinks of the presidency like a dictatorship. I assume he'd be stopped somehow, but by who and how long would the process take?
Laura PourMeADrink
(42,770 posts)onenote
(42,698 posts)since it doesn't give the President the power to eliminate presidential term limits, something that I would have assumed everyone here knew.