The first time one of his commands were ignored and everyone agreed it was the right call, that should have been the moment to remove him from office for the good of the country.
But we don't care about the good of the country anymore, do we? It's all about party before country and replacing the rule of law with the rule of men, isn't it?
Meanwhile, on the other side, Democrats are carefully avoiding doing anything to remove Trump from office so that they can maximize their gains in the next election. The establishment Democrats are as guilty of putting party before country as the Republicans, and this fucking bullshit has to fucking stop. The moment Obama refused to prosecute Bush II for war crimes, the rule of law was in jeopardy, and it seems like every decision made since then by both parties has made matters worse.
At what point do we say country before party? At what point do we decide to have the rule of law instead of the rule of men?
This is not OK.
None of this is fucking OK.
Fuck.
The problem is the people who see the problems aren't the same people who would decide on the 25th.
Yup. The system is supposed to have checks and balances to prevent this kind of person from ever becoming POTUS (Electoral College), and to remove any POTUS who goes off the rails or who slips past the EC filter (25th, Impeachment). But the existence of the partisan system plus Duverger's Law in a single member district FPTP electoral system means that none of these checks or balances are actually fit for purpose.
Your entire system needs a major overhaul. Trump is not so much an aberration, as an inevitable result of a system that was designed to be responsive to changing circumstances (Jefferson is said to have thought that the entire constitution should be re-written every twenty years), but which has instead become entrenched dogma, that most of the people whose duty it is to work for changes to it see as an almost sacred text that should not even be questioned.
The debate on the Second Amendment is a good example; The NRA don't argue with the gun control lobby very often about whether or not the amendment should be
re-written, or scrapped altogether; They argue about
what the original wording actually means, and how it should be interpreted.
Who cares what the founding fathers wanted to say about the right to bear arms? Why is this relevant today? Well, it's not - unless you are indoctrinated to view the Constitution as more than just a bunch of good ideas at the time, written down by smart men who expected other smart men to carry on updating their work to suit the environment in which they found themselves.
You will continue to get periodic Trumps as POTUS, until either one of them destroys you nation (and perhaps the rest of the world); Or you make some significant changes to the way in which Presidents are chosen. Mandatory voting would be a good idea. Some kind of proportional representation for Reps and Senators; Scrapping the EC and the Primary system, and having instant run off presidential ballots instead. Severe and tightly enforced electoral spending caps and limits on campaign advertising both by candidates and lobby/interest groups. Citizen initiated recall ballots for unpopular presidents, so that if congress won't impeach, the people can act in their stead. There are tons of better ways to pick a president than the one you currently have, and tons of better ways to enable a bad president to be removed.
But in order for any of this to happen, the people need to get off their backsides, and at the very least VOTE. For people who are committed to doing the hard work of reforming the system. The problem is that Americans are soft and apathetic. It constantly astonishes me that the workers in the US haven't risen up in a bloody revolution to demand an end to 'at will' employment, and the establishment of universal health care. The main reason for this seems to be that they are genuinely ignorant that things could be so much better for them than the status quo. Y'all need to stop clinging to God and guns, and get yourselves an education.
same here
