Seen quite a few posts about a new reconstruction. But none of them mention that you can’t have that until you win another civil war. Let’s start there and KO this evil
I hate that the superleftists who voted for Stein and didn't care that they brought on Trump in 2016 because "he'll destroy it so much we will finally get to rebuild it the right way" might have been right. Absolutely hate it.
Expand the court, reverse Citizens United, DC + Puerto Rico statehood, billionaire wealth tax, IRA on steroids, bar insurrectionists from public office.
You are citing a botched opinion poll that only represents 52% of 54% that actually marked that ballot. When you divide the numbers, support for statehood drops dramatically ages 18-40.
There have been multiple votes and opinion polls over the years. Have a new one with a high turnout threshold after enabling legislation passes Congress. See what happens.
Or instead of you talking for us you could advocate for your government to let us free so we can integrate with the rest of the Caribbean. We don’t wanna be Hawaii 2.0
We were only able to bury post war Germany because we utterly destroyed the German state in a total war. Munich would have gone up in radioactive ash had the war lasted three more months.
Getting to that point in an internal conflict would be ruinous.
Fwiw, they only buried the *top* people in post-war Germany. Much of the rank and file kept or gain back their positions after the Allies gave up on denazification in the 1950s.
We should err on the side of going too far instead of not far enough. We owe it to future generations to extinguish the current generation of Nazis completly and set the precent for how you handle these sorts of things
Law that if you do not pass a budget within the same 10-day window every year with 2/3 in each chamber, it serves as an automatic vote of no confidence. Snap election 4 weeks later for all legislative seats + presidency, with incumbents ineligible to run in that cycle.
Full audit + disclosure then blind trust for all federal elected, governors, judges at appeals court & above, Senate-confirmable appointees. Divestment of all foreign-held assets (1 residence exempt).
Lasts from 180 days before election/taking job, during time in office, plus 50% of term after.
A bit of suffering would be good for the professionals and middle class. Get em' back to their roots, force them to make their own coffee and sit on a public bus for three hours a day.
If we are able to have a another Reconstruction, we absolutely MUST do what wasn’t done in the first - Permanently penalize & wipe out the ability of those who caused the Civil War in the first place to EVER do it again.
In short, the Confederacy must be forever ended this time.
The reasons for the failure of The Reconstruction are numerous, but primarily lies with the failure to actually rebuild anything of use, allowing private enterprise to move in, and the suppression of unions.
The whole "culture" thing is a total fabrication by anti-union businesses, as late as 1920.
You see, the textile industry fled the north due to the growth of unions. They regrouped in the devastated south by building entire towns around the mills.
Literally everything in the town was owned by the company, including the parish priest.
Company towns.
In the 20s, unions in the north were planning to move south and assist in organizing a massive strike. The factory owners warned the workers that they'd all be fired and evicted if they took
I agree. And the recent experience of Chile should guide us. They overstuffed the new constitution with new ideas and voters rejected it. We need to pick a few major, durable, meaningful fixes and push for those rather than try and hit a total reset button.
I am all for reforms that are asking the genie for more wishes. Good idea.
I think that in a new Reconstruction we should focus in on 5-6 changes that fit the bill of major, durable, and meaningful. We can't just restore the pre-2025 status quo, but it's also unlikely to deliver utopia.
Abolish the electoral college and the senate? They'll still jerrymander the house. FPTP must go.
The parliamentary part is just recognizing the courts already gave all the power to the presidency. So making the position into PM is just recognizing that reality.
Back in 2009-10 I was part of an effort to call a constitutional convention for California. Ultimately it didn't happen and I was disappointed, I was *really* looking forward to being the James Madison of 21st century California!
And to be clear, my preference is to hit the reset button. Somewhere on my laptop I have a draft US constitution that's modeled on the 1949 West German Grundgesetz. But that's only possible in a Stunde Null moment and hopefully it doesn't come to that here.
So that to me means the better and more realistic path given the way the next 4 years are likely to play out is going to be that we get 5-6 big fixes. Let's make them count.
I mean, we wouldn’t be under the current government if the parts of the constitution about treason and insurrection just had “no really, we mean it” after them. It’s hard to predict how today’s words will be used by judges under tomorrow’s political pressures.
One of the 5-6 big fixes has to be to the composition, role, and powers of the Supreme Court. Open to ideas on what exactly we do with it. Do we create a US version of the German constitutional court and separate it from the other "highest court in the land" role that a Supreme Court provides?
I think the members of the Supreme Court should be elected regularly from among all acting lawyers and judges in each of the appellate courts, which should be redrawn to respect geographic bounds.
Judicial review should demand an 8/5+ supermajority and overturning precedent should require 10/3+.
Broad thoughts here (given it's impossible to simultaneously respect state boundaries, geographical boundaries, cultural boundaries, population parity, contiguity, compactness and partisan competitiveness)
Just shine a light on the money flows. That has broad bipartisan support among voters, btw. Dems were blocked by the GOP in Congress when they tried to pass a bill that did this. Wish more people knew about that
If so, may I suggest that we do Reconstruction *right* this time? Instead of leaving all sorts of gifts and loopholes for traitors to exploit? Which has led us to where we are now?
Just a suggestion.
The term I keep going back to is "Reconstitution," which I think captures the essence of a return to (reformed) Constitutional order while also emphasizing that we need to throw out absolutely everyone who betrayed their oath and allowed this to happen.
Part of the problem is the opposition when in power doesn’t know how to use power anymore. Even if legislation passes by some miracle or an EO is unchallenged, the implementation and efficiency is a failure. We need people who will enter government who know how to run these projects.
Do you think the Right will allow that to happen without large scale violence and do you think they could lose with the money and technology that’s unified behind them? I’m pessimistic.
I’ve had this feeling for a while now but am starting to suspect the only thing that would get us there is widespread hardship. Like people losing their entire life savings, jobs, the economy totally destroyed, lots of looting and unrest in mostly Red states.
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And they only assume every election from here on out will even BE a fair election. We’ve got a dictator right now, friends.
Anything shy of that would be defeat
Getting to that point in an internal conflict would be ruinous.
Lasts from 180 days before election/taking job, during time in office, plus 50% of term after.
They want everything Just So.
30 minute commute, $6 Starbucks double latte, lunch at 1145, home by 5, bed by 10.
And they will sacrifice *everything* to keep that once they get it.
Not bloody likely.
A bit of suffering would be good for the professionals and middle class. Get em' back to their roots, force them to make their own coffee and sit on a public bus for three hours a day.
In short, the Confederacy must be forever ended this time.
No jobs, no protections, no prospects = no hope.
One thqt’s often ignored was the allowance of the core culture of the Confederacy to not only continue but be glorified.
As a comparison, see how Elon’s nazi salute was shunned overwhelmingly in Germany…
But the core of the Confederacy has never been truly destroyed.
For the U.S. to move forward, it must be ended, once and for all.
The whole "culture" thing is a total fabrication by anti-union businesses, as late as 1920.
You see, the textile industry fled the north due to the growth of unions. They regrouped in the devastated south by building entire towns around the mills.
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Company towns.
In the 20s, unions in the north were planning to move south and assist in organizing a massive strike. The factory owners warned the workers that they'd all be fired and evicted if they took
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It's like asking the genie for more wishes.
I think that in a new Reconstruction we should focus in on 5-6 changes that fit the bill of major, durable, and meaningful. We can't just restore the pre-2025 status quo, but it's also unlikely to deliver utopia.
The parliamentary part is just recognizing the courts already gave all the power to the presidency. So making the position into PM is just recognizing that reality.
A constitution is a legal framework, but some people think of it as a way of enshrining their vision of utopia.
Judicial review should demand an 8/5+ supermajority and overturning precedent should require 10/3+.
Just a suggestion.
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