Kudos on a thoughtful piece. I will confess this was an option I had never even considered. It needs to become a rule change goal for 2027. I would be in favor of a 20 or 25 year secrecy so that by and large all the parties involved will have moved on.
I don't think the publication should be delayed for more than a decade. Especially if term limits were to be adopted to help all the parties involved to move on. But even without term limits a decade should be enough time for people to cool off yet not forget what it was all about. This would help people *remember history* so as to not repeat it.
Why can't we bring up emergency impeachment for the whole administration based on all the crimes they are doing and use the famous words NATIONAL SECURITY
Supreme Court term limits; all positions need age (retirement age just like SS) restrictions; corporate monies taken completely out of all politics; all/any crime/corruption offenses handled immediately & whoever committed the crime is banned from ever holding another position in our government.
Parents need to demand that schools teach US history and the Constitution which is something law schools are failing to do. A Dean of a well known law school attacked our founders for creating US Senate and wanting each state to have 2 US Senators not caring that this was done to reduce tyranny, bribery, and corruption and make sure each State has an equal say on Declaring War, military draft, coin money and regulate value of money, judges on US Supreme Court, etc. The population of a state may change greatly in 5 years.
I am tired of lawyers including lawyers who are talk show hosts who say USA is a Democracy and has three coequal branches of government. If you have read Constitution and think the USA is a Democracy and has 3 coequal branches of government, you are an idiot. Democracy in the USA is tyranny of the poorly educated mob that likes to be poorly educated because of the Democratic Party. The USA is a Federal Republic and most of the power of government belongs to Congress. Most members of Congress refuse to do their jobs.
The way local governments tax now which is based on value of property is not constitutional because of Amendments 5 and 8 of the Constitution. I expect a future US Supreme Court to agree with me. They are stealing home equity from people. They say person owes $5,000 on a house appraised for $400,000 and then sell the house at auction for $200,000. A friend of government then buy house and sells house for $400,000. The city government owes the homeowner $395,000 and not $195,000.
WE make a single mother with 1 child school who is middle class pay more in local government taxes than a family of 6 with 4 kids in school that is worth millions of dollars because her property is worth more. Local government taxation should be based on head count and usage of services with small part based on value of property. If have 4 kids in school, pay more in taxes than family with 2 kids in school. More people in family more taxes for police and fire department, etc.
Democrats need to do ads discussing Constitution. Have an ad - would you want to run a business that has to compete with a business owned by the President of the USA - hotel, golf course, manufacturing company, etc. How much harm do you think is cause when the President uses Tariffs to benefit businesses he owns? You might like Trump but would you like to compete with a business owned by a Democrat. If the President's business put you out of business, would this bother you?
Negative externalities are the leading cause of death globally. I want CONGRESS to negotiate trade agreements with foreign countries that will help reduce national debt, help fund Social Security and Medicare, provide money to state governments, provide money for local governments especially for schools, reduce negative externalities, help fund free health care clinics,
help fund free child care, free elder care, free lifetime job training, help fund free k-public graduate school educations. This pays for itself via higher taxes to governments.
Tariffs and intellectual property theft from Europe made USA a rich country. Best book on economics Report on Subject of Manufactures by Alexander Hamilton.
Explain to MAGA that national debt was less than $1 trillion before Reagan became President and took us over 180 years to get. WE have been governed very badly by Democrats and Republicans since Reagan became President. WE need over $900 now to buy what $250 could buy in January 1981. If we keep electing the wrong people, we will likely need over $3,000 to buy what $250 could buy in January 1981.
I think if Democrats want to increase their chances of winning they need to discuss the Constitution in ads and pass a law banning members of Congress and their spouses from investing in stocks and bonds of companies.
The Democratic Party should put forward a bill requiring Trump to sell his domestic emoluments and require him to give the proceeds to charities Democratic Party likes. Trump should also be required to sell foreign emoluments he obtained without first obtaining permission from Congress and give the proceeds to charities Democrats like.
I would like state law enforcement to arrest Trump and judges on US Supreme Court. Governors might pardon them. I doubt it. A future President would pardon.
Our country may be constituted as a federal republic, but the format of our republic is a representative democracy.
The only real problem with OUR democracy is that We the People have long neglected OUR responsibility to be actively engaged in OUR part of the deal. And being engaged requires, in part, being informed about and understanding how our democracy functions.
By not being engaged, We the People have left a political vacuum that the wealthy oligarchs and Big Business interests have step into to fill and to mold our systems to their liking, meaning their ability to reap huge profits while denying us our fair share.
Thanks for the feedback. We have Electoral College to reduce the odds people will elect tyrants President. We have the Electoral College to reduce the odds people will elect extremely incompetent people. The Electors to the Electoral College have not done their jobs properly. Our founders gave the powers they did to US Senators and wanted US Senators controlled by State legislatures to reduce amount of harm people cause themselves and reduce tyranny of Congress, President, judges on US Supreme Court. The USA is a Federal Republic which now cares little about Amendments 9 and 10 because of the Democratic Party. Our founders wanted State legislatures to be able to regulate MORE than the federal government does.
The second most important power of government after Declaring War is the power to coin money and regulate value of money. We will likely end up with Weimar Republic type hyperinflation because Democratic Party created the Federal Reserve which is not constitutional. Does Congress have the power to create a Declare War and Military Draft Board with 12 members picked by President, US Senate just having Advice and Consent dealing with Declaring War and Military Draft, US House of Representatives having no say on Declaring War and Military Draft? No
Democracy in the USA is tyranny by the poorly educated mob that likes to be poorly educated because of the Democratic Party. Study the history of the Democratic Party since the beginning. Study the history of the Democratic Party under Bill Clinton and Obama. Bankers went to prison under Bush 1 dealing with Savings and Loans Crisis. Obama and Democratic Party allowed bankers to get away with first degree mass murder because of bribes they got. They should have put bankers into prison. They should have broken up largest banks and investment companies. They should have used RICO against bankers and banks.
I have hated the Fake Republican Party for over 40 years.
Democrats are to blame for
"The only real problem with OUR democracy is that We the People have long neglected OUR responsibility to be actively engaged in OUR part of the deal. And being engaged requires, in part, being informed about and understanding how our democracy functions.
By not being engaged, We the People have left a political vacuum that the wealthy oligarchs and Big Business interests have step into to fill and to mold our systems to their liking, meaning their ability to reap huge profits while denying us our fair share."
because they go out of their way to provide children with lousy educations. How many LGBT children committed suicide because Democrats denied them the ability to go to safe schools via vouchers?
Democrats and ACLU are why females lost the ability to have abortions. Our 2 most important civil rights are free exercise of religion dealing with education and free exercise of religion dealing with health care. Democrats and ACLU have gone to War against free exercise of religion dealing with education causing females to lose free exercise of religion dealing with health care. Abortion rights depend on free exercise of religion dealing with health care.
I have often attacked Reagan and Eisenhower. My attacks against Trump as well as my other writing which had been on Linkedin for years were taken down on day Trump became President again. The media did not care that I was silenced.
WE the PEOPLE are "the government" — at least according to our Constitution.
But for decades WE have not fulfilled our part in our government, our "by the people" part.
Therefore, others have filled the role that we have chosen to leave unfilled.
And those others have reshaped our politics and government to suit themselves.
The Electoral College, the declaring of war, the regulation of money, the Republican Party, the Democratic Party — they are all agentic aspects of our politics and government that have been reshaped by those who enthusiastically filled the "by the people" roles we abandoned.
The faults we find in our government are ultimately all OUR fault.
There is no way around this conclusion.
Putting the "fault" label on any other agent or force is sloppy, erroneous and self-misleading.
Our only hope for success in turning this mess around is to clearly and honestly choose to wear that "fault" label ourselves and to work diligently towards earning the right to remove that label from ourselves as soon as possible.
And, in order to be able to do this, We the People need to choose to work together as harmoniously as possible so we don't waste time and effort or limit ourselves by fighting amongst ourselves.
This is literally about a simple matter of choice to embrace the truth of our situation.
If you want to solve a problem, you have to know what caused it. Over 95 percent of the problems we have today came about because of decisions Democratic Party made when Woodrow Wilson was President. If we do not fix the damage Democrats caused when Woodrow Wilson was President, things will get worse under Democrats and fake Republicans. Democrats destroyed the checks and balance system our Founders created because THEY KNEW the people of our Republic would elect tyrants if allowed to do so. Study history between 1750 and the writing of the Constitution. The Bill of Rights say what they do because of what is discussed in Declaration of Independence. The Federalist Papers is a history textbook that people should be quizzed on before graduating from high school, college, law school.
Most of our elected officials - Congress, President, members of State legislatures do not care what the Constitution says. They take an oath to Constitution and do not care.
Most of the judges on the US Supreme Court and most State Supreme Court judges do not care what the Constitution says. They take an oath to the Constitution but do not care.
Most of the people in our Republic do not care what the Bill of Rights are and how they came about.
Most of the people in our Republic are enemies of their own children.
Most of the people in our Republic are enemies of soldiers, veterans, and their families.
Things will only get better when people care about the Rule of law and vote for people who care about the Rule of law. Most people have not cared about the rule of law since Reagan became President. Most people have not cared about Truth and Reality since Reagan became President.
I AGREE WITH YOU THAT THE FAULTS BELONG TO THE PEOPLE. WE HAVE THE MOST UNPATRIOTIC PEOPLE ON THE PLANET. WE HAVE THE WORLD'S WORST PARENTS.
The last President who talked to people like they were adults was President Jimmy Carter.
"It’s clear that the true problems of our Nation are much deeper-deeper than gasoline lines or energy shortages, deeper even than inflation or recession. And I realize more than ever that as President I need your help. So, I decided to reach out and listen to the voices of America.
I invited to Camp David people from almost every segment of our society-business and labor, teachers and preachers, Governors, mayors, and private citizens. And then I left Camp David to listen to other Americans, men and women like you. It has been an extraordinary 10 days, and I want to share with you what I’ve heard.
First of all, I got a lot of personal advice. Let me quote a few of the typical comments that I wrote down.
This from a southern Governor: “Mr. President, you are not leading this Nation- you’re just managing the Government.”
“You don’t see the people enough any more.”
“Some of your Cabinet members don’t seem loyal. There is not enough discipline among your disciples.”
“Don’t talk to us about politics or the mechanics of government, but about an understanding of our common good.”
“Mr. President, we’re in trouble. Talk to us about blood and sweat and tears.”
“If you lead, Mr. President, we will follow.”
Many people talked about themselves and about the condition of our Nation. This from a young woman in Pennsylvania: “I feel so far from government. I feel like ordinary people are excluded from political power.”
And this from a young Chicano: “Some of us have suffered from recession all our lives.”
“Some people have wasted energy, but others haven’t had anything to waste.”
And this from a religious leader: “No material shortage can touch the important things like God’s love for us or our love for one another.”
And I like this one particularly from a black woman who happens to be the mayor of a small Mississippi town: “The big-shots are not the only ones who are important. Remember, you can’t sell anything on Wall Street unless someone digs it up somewhere else first.”
Kudos on a thoughtful piece. I will confess this was an option I had never even considered. It needs to become a rule change goal for 2027. I would be in favor of a 20 or 25 year secrecy so that by and large all the parties involved will have moved on.
I don't think the publication should be delayed for more than a decade. Especially if term limits were to be adopted to help all the parties involved to move on. But even without term limits a decade should be enough time for people to cool off yet not forget what it was all about. This would help people *remember history* so as to not repeat it.
Why can't we bring up emergency impeachment for the whole administration based on all the crimes they are doing and use the famous words NATIONAL SECURITY
Our Constitution provides for "impeachment". It doesn't mention anything about an "emergency impeachment" so that would become a big deal.
Supreme Court term limits; all positions need age (retirement age just like SS) restrictions; corporate monies taken completely out of all politics; all/any crime/corruption offenses handled immediately & whoever committed the crime is banned from ever holding another position in our government.
Brilliant.
Great idea - secret ballots for impeachment.
Parents need to demand that schools teach US history and the Constitution which is something law schools are failing to do. A Dean of a well known law school attacked our founders for creating US Senate and wanting each state to have 2 US Senators not caring that this was done to reduce tyranny, bribery, and corruption and make sure each State has an equal say on Declaring War, military draft, coin money and regulate value of money, judges on US Supreme Court, etc. The population of a state may change greatly in 5 years.
I am tired of lawyers including lawyers who are talk show hosts who say USA is a Democracy and has three coequal branches of government. If you have read Constitution and think the USA is a Democracy and has 3 coequal branches of government, you are an idiot. Democracy in the USA is tyranny of the poorly educated mob that likes to be poorly educated because of the Democratic Party. The USA is a Federal Republic and most of the power of government belongs to Congress. Most members of Congress refuse to do their jobs.
The way local governments tax now which is based on value of property is not constitutional because of Amendments 5 and 8 of the Constitution. I expect a future US Supreme Court to agree with me. They are stealing home equity from people. They say person owes $5,000 on a house appraised for $400,000 and then sell the house at auction for $200,000. A friend of government then buy house and sells house for $400,000. The city government owes the homeowner $395,000 and not $195,000.
WE make a single mother with 1 child school who is middle class pay more in local government taxes than a family of 6 with 4 kids in school that is worth millions of dollars because her property is worth more. Local government taxation should be based on head count and usage of services with small part based on value of property. If have 4 kids in school, pay more in taxes than family with 2 kids in school. More people in family more taxes for police and fire department, etc.
Democrats need to do ads discussing Constitution. Have an ad - would you want to run a business that has to compete with a business owned by the President of the USA - hotel, golf course, manufacturing company, etc. How much harm do you think is cause when the President uses Tariffs to benefit businesses he owns? You might like Trump but would you like to compete with a business owned by a Democrat. If the President's business put you out of business, would this bother you?
Negative externalities are the leading cause of death globally. I want CONGRESS to negotiate trade agreements with foreign countries that will help reduce national debt, help fund Social Security and Medicare, provide money to state governments, provide money for local governments especially for schools, reduce negative externalities, help fund free health care clinics,
help fund free child care, free elder care, free lifetime job training, help fund free k-public graduate school educations. This pays for itself via higher taxes to governments.
Tariffs and intellectual property theft from Europe made USA a rich country. Best book on economics Report on Subject of Manufactures by Alexander Hamilton.
Explain to MAGA that national debt was less than $1 trillion before Reagan became President and took us over 180 years to get. WE have been governed very badly by Democrats and Republicans since Reagan became President. WE need over $900 now to buy what $250 could buy in January 1981. If we keep electing the wrong people, we will likely need over $3,000 to buy what $250 could buy in January 1981.
I think if Democrats want to increase their chances of winning they need to discuss the Constitution in ads and pass a law banning members of Congress and their spouses from investing in stocks and bonds of companies.
The Democratic Party should put forward a bill requiring Trump to sell his domestic emoluments and require him to give the proceeds to charities Democratic Party likes. Trump should also be required to sell foreign emoluments he obtained without first obtaining permission from Congress and give the proceeds to charities Democrats like.
I would like state law enforcement to arrest Trump and judges on US Supreme Court. Governors might pardon them. I doubt it. A future President would pardon.
Sincerely,
Ken Stremsky
Our country may be constituted as a federal republic, but the format of our republic is a representative democracy.
The only real problem with OUR democracy is that We the People have long neglected OUR responsibility to be actively engaged in OUR part of the deal. And being engaged requires, in part, being informed about and understanding how our democracy functions.
By not being engaged, We the People have left a political vacuum that the wealthy oligarchs and Big Business interests have step into to fill and to mold our systems to their liking, meaning their ability to reap huge profits while denying us our fair share.
Thanks for the feedback. We have Electoral College to reduce the odds people will elect tyrants President. We have the Electoral College to reduce the odds people will elect extremely incompetent people. The Electors to the Electoral College have not done their jobs properly. Our founders gave the powers they did to US Senators and wanted US Senators controlled by State legislatures to reduce amount of harm people cause themselves and reduce tyranny of Congress, President, judges on US Supreme Court. The USA is a Federal Republic which now cares little about Amendments 9 and 10 because of the Democratic Party. Our founders wanted State legislatures to be able to regulate MORE than the federal government does.
The second most important power of government after Declaring War is the power to coin money and regulate value of money. We will likely end up with Weimar Republic type hyperinflation because Democratic Party created the Federal Reserve which is not constitutional. Does Congress have the power to create a Declare War and Military Draft Board with 12 members picked by President, US Senate just having Advice and Consent dealing with Declaring War and Military Draft, US House of Representatives having no say on Declaring War and Military Draft? No
Democracy in the USA is tyranny by the poorly educated mob that likes to be poorly educated because of the Democratic Party. Study the history of the Democratic Party since the beginning. Study the history of the Democratic Party under Bill Clinton and Obama. Bankers went to prison under Bush 1 dealing with Savings and Loans Crisis. Obama and Democratic Party allowed bankers to get away with first degree mass murder because of bribes they got. They should have put bankers into prison. They should have broken up largest banks and investment companies. They should have used RICO against bankers and banks.
I have hated the Fake Republican Party for over 40 years.
Democrats are to blame for
"The only real problem with OUR democracy is that We the People have long neglected OUR responsibility to be actively engaged in OUR part of the deal. And being engaged requires, in part, being informed about and understanding how our democracy functions.
By not being engaged, We the People have left a political vacuum that the wealthy oligarchs and Big Business interests have step into to fill and to mold our systems to their liking, meaning their ability to reap huge profits while denying us our fair share."
because they go out of their way to provide children with lousy educations. How many LGBT children committed suicide because Democrats denied them the ability to go to safe schools via vouchers?
Democrats and ACLU are why females lost the ability to have abortions. Our 2 most important civil rights are free exercise of religion dealing with education and free exercise of religion dealing with health care. Democrats and ACLU have gone to War against free exercise of religion dealing with education causing females to lose free exercise of religion dealing with health care. Abortion rights depend on free exercise of religion dealing with health care.
I have often attacked Reagan and Eisenhower. My attacks against Trump as well as my other writing which had been on Linkedin for years were taken down on day Trump became President again. The media did not care that I was silenced.
Sincerely,
Ken Stremsky
WE the PEOPLE are "the government" — at least according to our Constitution.
But for decades WE have not fulfilled our part in our government, our "by the people" part.
Therefore, others have filled the role that we have chosen to leave unfilled.
And those others have reshaped our politics and government to suit themselves.
The Electoral College, the declaring of war, the regulation of money, the Republican Party, the Democratic Party — they are all agentic aspects of our politics and government that have been reshaped by those who enthusiastically filled the "by the people" roles we abandoned.
The faults we find in our government are ultimately all OUR fault.
There is no way around this conclusion.
Putting the "fault" label on any other agent or force is sloppy, erroneous and self-misleading.
Our only hope for success in turning this mess around is to clearly and honestly choose to wear that "fault" label ourselves and to work diligently towards earning the right to remove that label from ourselves as soon as possible.
And, in order to be able to do this, We the People need to choose to work together as harmoniously as possible so we don't waste time and effort or limit ourselves by fighting amongst ourselves.
This is literally about a simple matter of choice to embrace the truth of our situation.
If you want to solve a problem, you have to know what caused it. Over 95 percent of the problems we have today came about because of decisions Democratic Party made when Woodrow Wilson was President. If we do not fix the damage Democrats caused when Woodrow Wilson was President, things will get worse under Democrats and fake Republicans. Democrats destroyed the checks and balance system our Founders created because THEY KNEW the people of our Republic would elect tyrants if allowed to do so. Study history between 1750 and the writing of the Constitution. The Bill of Rights say what they do because of what is discussed in Declaration of Independence. The Federalist Papers is a history textbook that people should be quizzed on before graduating from high school, college, law school.
Most of our elected officials - Congress, President, members of State legislatures do not care what the Constitution says. They take an oath to Constitution and do not care.
Most of the judges on the US Supreme Court and most State Supreme Court judges do not care what the Constitution says. They take an oath to the Constitution but do not care.
Most of the people in our Republic do not care what the Bill of Rights are and how they came about.
Most of the people in our Republic are enemies of their own children.
Most of the people in our Republic are enemies of soldiers, veterans, and their families.
Things will only get better when people care about the Rule of law and vote for people who care about the Rule of law. Most people have not cared about the rule of law since Reagan became President. Most people have not cared about Truth and Reality since Reagan became President.
I AGREE WITH YOU THAT THE FAULTS BELONG TO THE PEOPLE. WE HAVE THE MOST UNPATRIOTIC PEOPLE ON THE PLANET. WE HAVE THE WORLD'S WORST PARENTS.
The last President who talked to people like they were adults was President Jimmy Carter.
https://www.cartercenter.org/news/crisis_of_confidence/
"It’s clear that the true problems of our Nation are much deeper-deeper than gasoline lines or energy shortages, deeper even than inflation or recession. And I realize more than ever that as President I need your help. So, I decided to reach out and listen to the voices of America.
I invited to Camp David people from almost every segment of our society-business and labor, teachers and preachers, Governors, mayors, and private citizens. And then I left Camp David to listen to other Americans, men and women like you. It has been an extraordinary 10 days, and I want to share with you what I’ve heard.
First of all, I got a lot of personal advice. Let me quote a few of the typical comments that I wrote down.
This from a southern Governor: “Mr. President, you are not leading this Nation- you’re just managing the Government.”
“You don’t see the people enough any more.”
“Some of your Cabinet members don’t seem loyal. There is not enough discipline among your disciples.”
“Don’t talk to us about politics or the mechanics of government, but about an understanding of our common good.”
“Mr. President, we’re in trouble. Talk to us about blood and sweat and tears.”
“If you lead, Mr. President, we will follow.”
Many people talked about themselves and about the condition of our Nation. This from a young woman in Pennsylvania: “I feel so far from government. I feel like ordinary people are excluded from political power.”
And this from a young Chicano: “Some of us have suffered from recession all our lives.”
“Some people have wasted energy, but others haven’t had anything to waste.”
And this from a religious leader: “No material shortage can touch the important things like God’s love for us or our love for one another.”
And I like this one particularly from a black woman who happens to be the mayor of a small Mississippi town: “The big-shots are not the only ones who are important. Remember, you can’t sell anything on Wall Street unless someone digs it up somewhere else first.”
Sincerely,
Ken Stremsky