How do we structure the government to prevent a another nutcase president from being elected?
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Proportional voting on all levels of government. Fixes gerrymandering, electoral college, etc: your vote percentage matches your representatives proportionally.
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Redundancy. Allow a board of state governments to prosecute US government actors for violations of law. A board of the five largest US states (by pop) and a rotating roster of the remaining states should be authorized to enforce any federal law in addition to the executive branch.
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Balance of Powers. eliminate discretionary presidential pardon powers, force congress to approve all pardons and commutations and force them to do it in a separate vote from any bill or law.
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Abandon the current supreme court model. The supreme court as it is should be dissolved and a lottery board of existing judges should serve as the supreme court when a constitutional question arises. The supreme court should be convened only when a lower court has a constitutional question and dissolved once it is answered.
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Overturn citizens united and make bribery illegal. Ban political donations. Provide a lifetime pension for all congress members (to reduce the congress to lobbyist incentives and selling of secrets). Provide mandatory public funding for elections
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Tax the rich to the point their wealth no longer creates corrupt incentives.
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Media Reform. breakup the news and private media. Establish heavy tax on for profit media companies larger than a certain size. Create news libel laws where libel can be enforced against a media company or social media celebrity if a percent of followers/viewers are shown to believe something provably, factually untrue due to repeated editing decisions.
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institute modern healthcare reforms. Each state. should be responsible for providing their residents healthcare at no extra cost.
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Referendums on states and territories: Any US territory can become a state if they have a referendum that succeeds by 55% or more. Any US territory can become its own sovereign country with a referendum vote of 55% or more. Any civilian population policed or controlled by the US government for more than 10 years should be considered a US territory.
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I feel like point 9 can be abused, but everything else is perfect
I think something needs to be done for DC and puerto rico, if you have a solution that sounds better I’ll replace 9.
Imo i’d also be a fan of merging the two smallest adjacent states and splitting the largest one every 10 years, but I think that solves a problem so long term it would never get addressed in a democracy.
My fear is about all of the military bases that the US has all over the world and how those could in theory become US land through the way you worded that
Yeah it could be worded better. I think the addition of US government policing civilian populations might be better wording.
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socialism tends to be very nazi-resistant.
Socialism
The problem isn’t really with the structure of the government. It started with the voters. This chucklefuck got elected twice. Twice. If the first time wasn’t bad enough we fucking knew how awful he’d be and he was elected a second fucking time.
The mechanisms to remove him from office for being a senile insane pedophile rapist murdering war criminal are all in place, but half the government sees him as THEIR war criminal and the other half are too timid to do anything.
Even if we restructured the government or reinforced impeachment powers, it doesn’t matter so long as imbeciles will vote a monster like him in and cowards will keep him there.
Get rid of the strong unitary executive for one.
Roll executive power back at least to how it was pre-9/11, overturn Citizen’s United, and make drastic cuts to the military in order to invest in communities and improve people’s material conditions.
let’s not forget about probably the most important part- punish these people so severely that not a soul will ever consider doing this shit ever again.
Improve health and education.
If you can meaningfully improve people’s lives they will have much less incentive for them to sign up with Trump.
Sadly we literally have done that over time and yet here we are.
It doesn’t seem that way.
Proportional representation. End gerrymandering. Ban corporate political free speech protections and corporate lobbying. Publically funded elections. Approval voting or STAR voting. NPVIC. End broad immunity for the president immediately. Reform the War Powers Act to require congressional approval for wars or war-like operations.
You forgot to add removing the arbitrary size limit for Congress imposed by the apportionment Act of 1929 which directly led to gerrymandering even being a possibility. “Representation” is so inaccurate now that it’s hard to even claim it could be constitutional at this point.
which directly led to gerrymandering even being a possibility.
Gerrymandering goes back to 1812.
Good question. Since this regime will continue for the next 50 years or so, I suspect educating children to vote early and often is the only way out.
Ending gerrymandering would be a great start. Declaring the Republican party a criminal organization would be another.
Step one would be a viable second party.
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Term limits for all elected government. 2 terms.
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Remove executive powers for the President. No other country with a democracy has imperial powers bestowed on a leader.
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Term limits for Supreme court.
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Teach children real history, civics, and philosophy, from a young age. Also how to shoot.
How are we going to do that? It’s not like Trump is leaving office as long as he is alive and all of the corruption will be so baked in that we’ll never recover even after his death.
And even if Democrats should somehow manage to win an election as some point in the future, they would never be able to gain enough votes to implement an amendment.
And it’s not like they’re willing to anyway.
- fix the 2 tier justice system that favors the rich
- actually punish corruption
- reverse citizens united, money out of elections
- bring back the fairness doctrine
- allow citizens to sue the news for lieing
- 18 year term limits on supreme court jusices
- recall elections triggered for house and senate via popular vote (1 new judge every 2 years)
- eliminate first past the post for all national elections.
- 6 national voting days every year.
- enforce anti monopoly laws, break up many large companies.
- remove the income cap on social security
- tax loans made agaist stocks, same as selling
- make student loans eligible in bankruptcy
- mandatory financial education in high school
- voting maps drawn simply by algorithm, politicians can not draw their own maps.
- if corporations are people, allow them to be jailed or disolved same as a person commiting the same crime.
18 year term limits on supreme court jusices
Why, specifically 18 years? I agree with term limits, I’m just curious on the length you have chosen.
With 9 judges, we would replace 1 every 2 years.
That’s pretty good. Also means changes are staggered out.
Kavanaugh staggered in.
