The Partisan Divide on Issues

[David Horn]

(04-07-2020, 04:29 PM)Bob Butler 54 Wrote:

(04-07-2020, 03:55 PM)David Horn Wrote:

(04-07-2020, 02:56 PM)Tim Randal Walker Wrote: Regarding Bob Butler's comments....

By the time the USA gets to the next 3T, those who remember the New Gilded Age will have retired, and will start to die off.  Younger generations will be naive, and will be conned by  new robber barons.

There is only one solution to that: amend the Constitution.  Crises are the only times that's viable, so it needs to be a primary goal.  It probably won't happen, but it should.

What did you have in mind?

I know I would want to go after the old slavery compromises which gave the slave states and now rural states artificially extra power.  These would be primarily the Senate, the Electoral College, and the difficulty getting an amendment, which tempts whomever has the power to ignore rule of law.  There is too much legislation from the bench.

I would say late Crisis is the time for amendments, which was after the Crisis war in the Industrial Age, this time around when the virus is solved.  An attempt is made to set the solutions to the Crisis in stone.  The attempt is often bypassed in the High though legislation from the bench.  For example, the Jim Crow court cases undid the Black Republican attempts to give blacks the benefits of human rights.

We need to balance the power of urban areas with that artificially given to rural ones, but not to the point that the rural areas start to rebel (unless splitting the nation in pieces is part of the plan).  We also need a directly elected chief executive.  But none of that will offset the power of money in politics, so that needs to be addressed too.  Of course, the PTB will start working an end-run immediately, so this will not be a permanent fix.  Since we're on the way out, how that gets addressed should be left to the young.  I wish them well.