I think DJT has a different role in all of this. He would be a GREAT Speaker, but we don't need him on the front lines like that. Who might be someone who would bring back proper debate and transparency of the House business? Mark Levin Robert G. Natelson
The Speaker does NOT have to be a member of Congress. Who else?
We NEED debate on the house floor on every bill. The way the rules are now, there isn't ANY debate. The Freedom caucus, including Lauren Boebert, are pushing for transparency of the workings of Congress. McCarthy is NOT. He WANTS that power that Pelosi to put a four-thousand page bill on the floor for a vote the next day. No debate. No understanding. No transparency.
I agree with this article in how history might look upon the US. I disagree with the assertion that we will be able to eliminate an idea, the concept of "globalism/socialism/communism". I don't think we can, nor should we be able to eliminate ideas.
If there is true freedom of thought, then all thoughts are allowed. The task is to bring thoughts into reality and let people prove the realities. That isn't exactly what I mean. Those "new guards" mentioned by Jefferson were and are essential for freedom.
I feel that we didn't perceive those ideologies as threats. We knew that anyone who dabbled in them could be shown how they fall down in reality.
But we, the US, did not install any new guards. Instead, we rationalized that those ideas are so opposed to the realities of human experience that we told ourselves that no such could ever be accepted by the general public.
Our lackadaisical inactions allowed those ideologies to infest, grow, and eventually overcome our current guards.
I still feel that the "overseer" role is important and has been neglected. The basic idea of America is that "We the People" govern ourselves. We have neglected that responsibility. Combined with the festering invasion of foreign ideologies, "We the People" lost control of our government.
We must concentrate on those "new guards" as Jefferson suggested that we "provide for [our] future security." Despotism has many manifestations, many ways, of attaining power over "We the People". Every one of us in the US must become an overseer. We have to learn what that role is, how it works, and how to use it effectively against those various manifestations of despotism.
Such an effort will require educating ourselves, our friends, our politicians and, especially, our posterity. It is a LARGE undertaking. And we need to begin that work immediately!
OK, "We the People" of Colorado, lets take some non-violent action together. Let's organize a common law grand jury of We the People and look at the evidence, and if warranted, issue an indictment or presentment, as appropriate.
Here, look at US v Williams, 1992. You can find it here if nowhere else: https://www.nationallibertyalliance.org/files/supreme%20court%20cases/US%20v%20Williams.pdf