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In reply to the discussion: If your wondering why Trudeau flew to Florida to meet with Trump... [View all]msfiddlestix
(8,043 posts)And all the law makers since the last century for not fixing the qualification requirements for POTUS.
among other remarkably glaring moribund quirks founders had no possible way to completely foresee the myriad of ways a criminal tyrant and traitor could take power 200+ years in the future.
Of course they could easily imagine it to a degree, and let's not forget how the Constittuion was close to never being ratified , because of obstructionists who were actually loyalists to the crown . some who were southern slave an d plantation owners, others who were wealthy merchants. etc.
Shoulda, woulda, coulda, A big huge mistake, a series of colossal misdeeds and or missed opportunities to take legislative actions with the Constitution especially wrt to Nixon.
Oh hell, we couldn't even manage to ratify the ERA for effs sakes.
All this (and so much more) tells me is we have been suffering a most monumental state of delusion for years, decades, more than a century. There is no fixing anything now. We aren't losing a democracy, we;re being reminded that we never had one in the first place.
The fascists right wingers have been saying forever we live in a Republic not a democracy.
Well, the former is just as meaningless as the latter, now.
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