The former Central Intelligence Agency director John Brennan has added his name to growing calls for the president to be ousted on grounds that he is unfit for the job, arguing that the US constitution’s 25th amendment addressing involuntary removal from office was “written with Donald Trump in mind”.
Brennan, who served as head of the spy agency during Barack Obama’s presidency, told MS Now on Saturday that Trump’s recent volatile remarks about destroying Iranian civilization and the danger he posed to so many lives merited his removal from the Oval Office.
“This person is clearly unhinged,” he said. “I think the 25th amendment was written with Donald Trump in mind.”
Brennan added that Trump was too much of a liability to be allowed to continue to be commander in chief. He had immense firepower at his disposal, including the US nuclear arsenal.
Maybe the 25th Amendment was written with tyrants in mind, but they should have written laws governing their checks and balances better. Allowing one party to take all three branches of government is a mistake. There should be three parties (at least), with no collusion (I know, what colour dragon would I like), and each one should get a branch. Voters want one party to take another branch, they have to give up the one they already have. It would work out better if there were four or more parties, one or more is just not in majority control of any one branch. Two party is already kind of a bust, but when one has control of all three, the 25th isn’t going to be invoked by anyone with the power to do anything about it. And that’s by design.
I don’t know about multiple parties etc, but I think what you guys need is an independent judicial system that’s actually willing to throw criminals in jail no matter what their bank account status or job title is.
If you would have had that, none of this would have happened.
Ah, or maybe it’s the hyper capitalist practice of funneling all money known to human kind into three senile men and four boys that never grew up? Amid the miniscule democracy index and fentanyl fueled rampaging citizen rape feast bonanza who knows really but maybe maybe it’s the hypercapitalism. It could be the justice system or it could be the hypercapitalism that enables corporate demonic entities to impel lawyers to lobby new laws that fleece the poor 99% i mean we just cannot know if that is the problem or if it is only the justice system
Either approval voting (preferably) or ranked choice voting needed to be a thing from the beginning, to limit the power of extremists and to moderate power.
Frist, campaign funding needs to be capped and be limited to individual donations. But then: there are as many models of democracy as there are democratic countries. It might be useful to compare them and see what model you could work towards. In research, the Nordic states almost always come out on top. So have a look at what they are doing for inspiration.
Lol this was hilarious to read
Our parties work for billionaires. Doesn’t matter how many you have. The problem is that billionaires control the system. Stop trying to get creative and face reality.