After just a few months of Donny’s boot heel we can say that the US political system and the country is broken.
Will the midterms be a fix for what is happening?
Personally I think NOT!
But if we get rid of Donny and the Kakistocracy what will be next…..we need to make the nation healthy again….
The United States is broken, and it’s time to think about what comes next.
Images of the White House East Wing demolition that have filled our eyes in recent days are a visual expression of a broader reality. The constitutional order of the U.S. is shattered. A lawless president backed by a feckless Congress and a Supreme Court tipped far to the right has upset what balance of powers remained under the constitutional system. That he could order the destruction of a national landmark with no public notice or review to build his ballroom signals his dictatorial intent.
But the roots of this run far deeper, to the Constitution itself. The U.S. started as a loose alliance of states under the Articles of Confederation. They had significant autonomy. But the financial classes centered in the large Northeast cities had a big problem with that. They were owed war debts and demanded payment in gold and silver. But states, where a measure of democracy existed, wanted to use paper money. When farmers in western Massachusetts staged Shay’s Rebellion against taxes needed to pay the debts, the ruling classes were alarmed. Led by Alexander Hamilton, they convened the Constitutional Convention to create a powerful federal government that could control the states and further expansion on the western frontier.
Over the century to come, the federal government mounted military campaigns to conquer the natives, and subsidized railroad construction. These were crucial to build a continental empire. Once that was filled out, the U.S. moved out into the world to build the greatest global empire in history, sustained by the centralized federal power created by the Constitution.
Power has been centralizing in the U.S. for its entire history, to the point we have reached today where a president has seemingly breached all limits, as exhibited by the East Wing demolition in violation of law and custom. What is going to pull us back from this?
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-u-s-is-broken-time-to-think-about-what-comes-next/
What do you think we will need to do to pull us back to sanity in the political system?
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I recall when he used to spout on about ‘shithole countries’. Now he is fast turning America into one.
Best wishes, Pete.
Yep and doing a fine job in just 9 months…..chuq
Don’t even need to read past the headline to know exactly what you are saying. But great post – it is truly shocking how one evil megalomaniac can do so much damage so fast…but he has been emboldened by people who refuse to reign him in…we are no longer the “leader of the free world” but the laughingstock….and if we are such a great country, why do 42 million of us need help just to have enough food to eat?
A great point John…..I have been thinking of what are our options and none of them look really good right now. chuq
What can we do to pull us back into sanity in the political system? What we can do is what we shall do whether we like it or not— we shall go through the entire holocaust scenario and when all is ashes, someone will rise to rebuild it all from the start again….there is no other option at this point– it takes a unified national psyche to get anything positive done and we haven’t have a unified national psyche for years now– generations will come and go before any of this ever sees light again.v
You are right…..without unity we have nothing. chuq