I highly doubt that Trump and the White Hats will leave the same political system that has been weaponized and used against American and the rest of Western Civilization untouched. So what changes might we see, either major overhaul to the rules and who gets to vote, or a complete scrapping of the system for something else entirely?
Thoughts and opinions
One day these A-hole in government will remember we (The USA) are NOT a democracy. We are a Representative Republic.
"Masculine republics give way to feminine democracies, and feminine democracies give way to tyranny.” - Aristotle
But we aren't a democracy.
REPUBLIC!!!! WE ARE A REPUBLIC!!!
Call me crazy, but I think I'd like to try for once in my life living under a constitutional republic like the one actually laid out in (and intended by the founding fathers) the original constitution and bill of rights.
We can roll back a few amendments like the popular vote for the senate and income taxes. We can add term limits for congress, try to better balance state rights, add the requirement that original intent be considered in judicial decisions where applicable, and figure out a way to incentivise people to not create political parties (like George Washington warned us to avoid). Seems like it would be an amazing experiment to take up once again as I observe it has been over 100 years since people got to live like that.
An interesting take. Based on how you have responded, I would suggest you have no idea what brought our country here. Yes, there are some bad Amendments that need to be removed. But the most significant factor in our departure from the constitutional republic is the concerted effort by all three official branches, the unofficial 4th branch of unelected bureaucrats to ignore and destroy the constitution and especially its actual meaning through reinterpretation, and the media narratives that actively assist in this destruction while preventing the population from understanding what is really happening. Add to this internal corruption the outside influences of foreign nations and the powerful elite whom fund politicians campaigns and buy their loyalty with blackmail, the moral decay of the citizenry (encouraged by the corrupt who were incentivizing corruption in legislation and policy designed to increase moral decay), and the influence of fractional reserve banking on incentivizing and normalizing poor financial choices within the population and destroying the value of our money.
Perhaps you are unfamiliar with the preamble of the original constitution. Specifically the meaning of "in Order to form a more perfect union". The significance being that the founding fathers recognized the constitution they were proposing for ratification was much better than the Articles of Confederation but it is not perfect in itself. Had they believed it to be the perfect constitution for government, they would not have provisioned for the amendment process.
So rather than my statement being self contradictory as you would like to suggest, it is actually consistent as I am proposing amendments exactly within the framework instituted by the original constitution. In operating entirely within that framework and since the amendments I'm proposing are not designed to or intended to upend the original constitution in a manner inconsistent with a constitutional republic, I am by definition advocating for living under the constitutional republic that is like the one originated by the founding fathers. Like meaning similar not exact and generally like meaning a government operating in the same spirit as the founding fathers intended. The founding fathers clearly believed there should be an amendment process that would be utilized to address and further perfect the constitution in areas where a national problem exists. Amendments would be proposed and ratified to resolve a persistent national issue that required a solution which would ultimately impact how the federal government functions or how the states relate to the federal government. Obviously the amendment process has been used many times already.
Thus it is consistent that I propose we remove at least two existing amendments and replace them with term limits on Congress and a stronger clause identifying that states do have a significant amount of autonomy and self sovereignty within this republic as we have watched over the past 150+ years an incredible erosion of state sovereignty by cleverly worded arguments in the executive and judicial branches that have sidestepped, dismissed, or ignored the state sovereignty; or we have seen the legislative branch write laws specifically designed to sidestep constitutional challenge while operating in the opposition to the original intent and meaning of the limitations in the constitution on the federal government in state affairs. In short I want a stronger provision to state these erosion against state sovereignty should not occur. Powers not enumerated to the federal government and not prohibited from the states by the constitution (and amendments) are reserved for the states clearly did not account for the federal government putting rules on the state's through money appropriations with compliance strings attached.
If those ideas aren't your cup of tea, then fear not. With ratification requiring 75% of the states legislators (or 75% of the states represented at a convention of states organized to consider said amendment) to approve the proposed amendment, it is very unlikely any of these ideas become an actual constitutional amendment.
In closing, suggesting I think I know better than the founding fathers is a straw man argument meant to distract from the specific ideas I am proposing. We now have 233 years of history to view how things have progressed since the ratification of our constitution. Things are quite off the rails at this point. Some clever loopholes have been exploited over that time to sidestep the original intent of the constitution and other times the government chose to just ignore the constitution. We can fix the loopholes by amending the constitution so that it is clearly defined that those methods of sidestepping are not allowed. We can fix the government ignoring the constitution by becoming a fully engaged citizenry who is constantly watching for this behavior and who challenges such illegal government usurpation of enumerated powers in the appropriate legal manners afforded to us to redress our grievances. Of course this all assumes that we get to a point where our nation rolls back or eliminates the unconstitutional bloat that is the majority of our government today.
We’re a Constitutional Republic for Fs sakes… how dumb are people???
Unfortunately it has been hijacked by a criminal syndicate!!!
Democracy, as per Benjamin Franklin, “is two Wolves and a Chicken voting on what’s for dinner”. It’s mob rules.
The Constitution and The Bill of Rights are unique documents as they recognize the rights that every human being IS BORN WITH!!! Not granted by another man, born with!!!
WE THE PEOPLE NEED TO ENFORCE THE CONSTITUTION!!! sheesh!!!
Please wake the F up people!!!
"Unfortunately it has been hijacked by a criminal syndicate!!!"
You said it, so what makes you think it won't happen again?
It's time for real personal freedom.
Constitutional Republic? Too many moving parts, too many leaders, too much government and too many rules by 10 orders of magnitude.
I would like to gut the federal and state governments to levels that no one ever thought possible. Look at Elon with his exsanguination of twitter. Something like 97% of those useless faggots are gone and twitter still runs.
See my other post in this thread for more detail/.
Was twitter gutting to show government could be slashed and be better for it?
Quite possibly.
How dumb are people? Pretty fucking stupid, that’s how dumb.
It took 200 years for the Constitutional Republic to be totally compromised and subverted. It will happen again any time we have leaders with any amount of power and time at their disposal.
I would like to gut the federal, state and local governments to levels that no one ever thought possible. Look at Elon with his exsanguination of twitter, yet it lives. Something like 97% of those useless faggots are gone and twitter still runs.
I want to emulate this with the local, state and federal governments. The only things government needs to do is protect the border and take the garbage away and in order to do that they tell someone else to do it.
Lets gut the entire federal government apparatus, for example, down to 4 people and state governments to 2 people. Lets see how solutions to problems like "who is going to build the roads?" emerge organically.
Let's meld the best form of economic system ever devised with absolute and paramount inviolability of the individual. Anarcho-Capitalism could combine the best of capitalism and the absolute lack of any coercion by state or government actors.
"Anarcho-Capitalism is a movement self-describing as an individualist anarchist[1] political philosophy that advocates the elimination of the state and the elevation of the individual in a free market" - sounds like a fucking utopia.
"Anarcho-capitalism is a consistent version of capitalism, where coercive public monopolies would no longer exist.
Anarcho-Capitalism embraces the free market, which contrasts with collectivistic anarchist philosophy. It should be noted that most anarcho-capitalists define the words "capitalism," "free market" and "private property" differently from collectivistic anarchists. "
Anarcho-capitalists state that an employer-employee relationship may be a mutually profitable form of voluntary association.
They resent government as a parasite that corrupts, biases, impedes and distorts what would otherwise be peaceful fair and free associations.
Anarcho-capitalists consider that in consenting to a contract, that each party was free to refuse, the contract is voluntary and therefore legitimate and beneficial, claiming any external power that attempts to prevent such relationship is itself an oppression.
"Private property is the greatest revolutionary force which exists, with an unequaled capacity for setting itself against authority... and the principal function of private property within the political system is to act as a counterweight to the power of the State, and by so doing to insure the liberty of the individual."
http://eng.anarchopedia.org/Anarcho-Capitalism
Fuck having leaders, fuck giving people and governments power over our own bodies and ability to act on our will. Fuck anything that remotely resembles anything we have lived through for the last 150+ years and more.
It's time for real personal freedom, real free markets and for government to be so tiny the will of the people is in danger of accidentally squashing it like a bug.
Constitutional Republic? Too many moving parts, too many leaders, too much government and too many rules by 10 orders of magnitude.
Anarcho-Capitalism is the only moral system. Any system that permits initiation of violence (taxation is but one example) by one group of people cannot be moral.
Term limits
I’d argue that our present Deep State government is more of a de facto oligarchy. If that holds, then according to anacyclosis, the next stage is an overthrow of the elites and a return to “democracy” in the best sense, a rule by the will of the people.
I am a Wolf, my friend is a Wolf, you are a Lamb. We are the people.
Let's vote on what is for dinner.
The will of the people shall prevail.
Democracy is not good. Need a fairer system