Who else would like politics to be humdrum?

[David Horn]

(02-10-2022, 12:52 AM)JasonBlack Wrote:

(02-03-2022, 04:30 PM)pbrower2a Wrote: Donald Trump has shown the seams of our system. In the old days those who knew of those seams recognized the danger of exploiting those seams even if such was temporarily advantageous because finding shady way to do good would encourage someone else to find such a shady way for doing bad. We may need to rewrite much of the Constitution just to close those seams. I have long dreaded the prospect of another Constitutional Convention because such might enshrine special-interest policies  that we might regret in a short time, or even allow one of the Parties to declare itself the "Leading Force in American politics", which is how Soviet constitutions enshrined the Communist Party.

From what I've gleaned so far of your other posts, you seem like someone I would hold some pretty different views on, but I share your sentiments here wholeheartedly. When politics is "humdrum", people are free to just be....left the ___ alone and focus on their own lives, their own meaning and their own mission. Unfortunately, times us crisis force everyone to think about politics more than is ideal.

In spite of our differences, we appear to have a shared sense that checks and balances are one of the most (if not the most) important aspects of a functioning free society. When a special interest group can swoop in and change everything by force, that's just about the worse possible scenario for anyone, left or right, who holds basically liberal views on things.

As bad, if not worse, is the exact opposite: no one can change anything ever.  Eventually, stasis becomes rot and whatever sense of community and polity that may have existed simply disappears.  Of the two, my disaster scenario is a lot closer to reality today.

Be careful what you wish for.