• agent_flounder@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    The only outcome from that, which by the way is being pushed for by billionaires, is proverbially putting a bullet in democracy’s head and leaving it to rot in the desert.

    What prevents all the corrupt, bad actors currently doing their best to fuck the system and all of us peons from doing the same but an order of magnitude worse once they get to rip up the constitution and start over?

    What we really need is decent people to get together and agree on a general vision and goals of what needs unfucking.

    We need a long game plan to fix things. Stuff like fixing broken congressional representation (Expand the House and bin the Senate), undo citizens united, break up oligopolies and monopolies, reform campaign finance and eliminate lobbying, do some form of ranked choice voting, no more electoral college, establish congressional term limits, and things along those lines.

    The whole Senate thing needs to just fuck off. We need to re-architect checks and balances. Impeachment doesn’t work. Voters should be able to recall any elected official.