There is no world where it makes more sense to spill blood rather than peacefully, lawfully and constitutionally holding our elected representatives to account.
When you have a government that admires the Chicoms and Chavez style goobermint in Venezuela, and tries to make itself a permanent one party state with fake elections, THEN it is time to fight.
We have all the tools we need to successfully self-govern, and availing ourselves of them is a far wiser choice than violence.
Those tools only work in a competent two party system where both sides work to keep each other honest...
Fake News. The Framers gave us Article V and with it the power for the State Legislatures to reform the Federal Government,
with no input from the Federal Government, before the rise of the Party System. They wanted to be sure that if we came to find that our Federal Government was no longer responding to us, that we could make the necessary changes to restore our sovereignty over the government, without violent revolution. If we were to have a dinner and a discussion with the Framers where we could describe to them what the Federal Government has become, I assure you that the first question they would ask us is if we have had the State Legislatures draft Constitutional Amendments designed to reassert our authority over our government, and when we responded "No". They would want to why. I don't have a good answer as to why, when obviously it's the tool we need, and precisely for the situation we find ourselves in. We have a Federal Government that uses their power to serve themselves, when we created it for them to serve us. And they do not chose to serve us involuntarily, they work very hard for the privilege, it's just that these days they clearly work very hard for the opportunity to serve themselves. They are human, not angels, just as our Framers warned us is the common state of humans. We need to reassert control.
I'd like to see greater power over Federal policy exercised by the State Legislatures acting in concert. How many things have we known needed to be done, but one house or the other simply will not do them, so, we need another path. I'd like to see a Constitutional Amendment that allows the State Legislatures to put a bill on the President's desk for signature into law if the majority of the State Legislatures pass an identical bill, and, with the ability to override a veto on a 2/3rds majority.
I'd also like to see the Senate return to the Federal House of Legislature for the State Legislatures that it was designed to be. The tweak that I think would do the job would be for the State Legislature to have the ability to recall their US Senator on a majority vote, with the Governor appointing their replacement to serve until the next scheduled election.
Then when the Senate is getting ready to exercise its power, say over the budget, treaty, confirmation, impeachment or whatever, if the State Legislature passes a motion indicating their sense of what should occur, their US Senators damn well better pay attention.
And the 3rd thing, and this doesn't require a Constitutional Amendment, the DC Swamp needs to be dispersed. There is no Agriculture in DC, the Department of Agriculture should be in a farmland state, hiring from the farming communities they supposedly serve. And this goes for all the massive Departments. The main reason this is all inside the beltway is to make it convenient for the lobbyists, national, and international, to affect national policy. Well, screw that, we will organize our Federal Government to serve our needs, not theirs. One unmanageable swamp is nothing more than a 1,000 perfectly manageable puddles, all crammed unnaturally into one geographic setting.
... THOSE TOOLS are broken...
The tool I'm talking about is pristine, it's yet to be used even once. While 240 years old, it's also band new.
... and of no use unless one or the other change; i.e. either Republican leaders grow a spine or Dimbocraps suddenly become honest...
Yeah, well, we can multitask. We can continue to work on that, but, we also need a fallback plan, and continuing to grow in power in the State Legislatures is ultimately even more powerful than full control of the Federal Government. We've had full control of all 3 branches, and I was amazed at how little we accomplished, I used to think that was the solution, I no longer do, though it could be helpful and is still worth pursuing.
One thing we should probably remember is that we did just reform the Judiciary, Trump/McConnell got far more done in just 4 years than we have accomplished in the last 84 years. An amazing feat, which should spin off positive results for at least a decade or more.
