Imagine "rebooting" America with a new government that is actually for the people instead of the elitists. With strong emphasis on liberty and freedom from fear of tyranny.
My ideal America is a Holy American Republic or a Libertarian America.
America's problem ultimately come from far too much centralized power otherwise we would have tried 50+ different solutions and found ones that work or at least didn't create the domestic problem in the first place.
Instead with one arrogant set of leaders effectively incapable of implementing any solution either because they are too institutionally compromised (too far form the issue to see what they are doing), or have too many other issues to run one to ever really care about any one of them.
Either way nobody is consistently both inclined and free to address any real domestic issue.
This of course is not whats in our constitution, the framers were not soo foolish as to support such a system even when it was more manageable among a east coast population of just 4 million.
This situation is the result of effectively unaccountable power grabs which cannot be contained due to the fact that the only people currently allowed to define and enforce it are hand picked by the very federal politicians least interested in it being enforced.
As @purplepoppy says it’s about combatting a completely polarised society, those with extremist view being able to use every media platform to push their views. Also the idea of free elections is that the people can vote for who they want, how do you get past 80 million v 74 million votes? Those are votes by the people. Maybe restrict how much money is allowed to be spent on an election, make it simpler for other party types to stand, make it very transparent all the way through the process.
Put an age limit of 70 on all government positions, you hit 70 you go, that will a huge reduction on what each person can spend to get elected at all levels of state and national levels.
At present it will only get worse as kids have to chose between who they support, purple or magenta
You do of course realise that you can't be in favour of both a "Libertarian America" and a theocratic one. The two are mutually exclusive, because under a theocracy there would be no personal freedom at all.
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Although it can be tempting to wipe the slate clean and start over from scratch, that is actually pretty much never a good idea.
Because you would not only be throwing away the bad parts. You would be throwing away the good parts too. And that is simply not effective.
The path to success in any endeavour is this:
You figure out what you want to discard. And then you figure out what you want to keep. And then you only discard the first stuff.
If you keep doing this, over time, whatever it is you are doing will get better and better.
The USA is corrupt because the people who wield power are corrupt, pretty much anywhere around the world. If you "re-boot America", who are you going to get to make decisions when the hearts of people are so filled with hate, greed, prejudice and apathy towards those who are without resources?
It's estimated that humans have been around anywhere from 100,000 years or more. We still haven't got passed skin color! Skin color! If you re-boot, who will be the leaders? Christian Nationalists? Extremist right or left wingers? Will minorities have a voice and freedoms? Will the TRUTH about history finally be told and acknowledged? Even if honest and honorable leaders are found, will the theocrats be satisfied to live in a non-theocracy? They're not now, but they're the minority.
Constitutional amendment that redistricting must be done by a bipartisan group of cartographers who can only take into account population, not voting patterns, race, socio-economic status, etc. Gerrymandering has led to too many "safe" congressional seats.
Change house of representative terms to 4 years, so they're not running for re-election for half of the terms. Every year 1/4 of the house is up for election. Term limits: 2 consecutive terms for senators and 3 for house.
The candidate for the four biggest political parties automatically get into presidential debates and on state ballots.
don't think it's possible for the $ has corrupted to the core.
That's like asking...'this cow carcass has been sitting a week in the field, what can we do to remove these maggots and get this meat to market?'.
It's not awful, I live here, there's lots of good, but we are fried crispy corrupt.
Not sure how to respond... I see American in the grip of the most tyrannical, fanatical, leadership I have ever seen in my lifetime. and millions of illegals from the same kind of governments streaming across our borders with no control whatsoever.
If you mean anything but voting for better representatives, that's seditious.
If you're suggesting voting for people who won't just hand out tax cuts to the rich and will pass laws or constitutional amendments to get money out of politics, require supreme court justices to have been confirmed with at least 60 votes in the senate (preferably retroactively), and hold them to strict codes of conduct, have at it!
We need to rid corrupt politicians and make pacs and super pacs illegal. They should not be allowed to be legally bribed by billionaires and big corporations.
We also need to have more than two parties that control everything, no life term for judges, shorter terms overall. We don't need to overthrow anything. That's what you're saying by reboot in my opinion. That just causes chaos which we don't need.
If you rebooted the right would demand it's rebuilt in their image and the left the same. I think America needs to do more to combat polarization and the unproportional influence of extremists. It would also do well to scrape the Constitution.
I don't know, but I wonder if whatever you mean by "too late" includes the physical survival of the base remnants. I am at least hopeful that at worst-case America may die but a base remnant population from it and Western civilization as a whole may still be alive.
Otherwise, we might just have to ride it out whether the outcome, while still defending and protecting ourselves from whatever harm it might bring.
not exactly. all hope for libertarian is lost, nobody supports it, but not too late, not fallen permanently "irreversible" but still can fix by voting the one who added to south wall, trump.
Civilizations rise and civilizations fall. No civilization has ever been able to reverse its' decline. That's been true throughout history. And at this point American decline is well established. Why else would Make America Great Again be a movement? At this point America is a zombie nation with a zombie president. And if you think this is going to get better you haven't been paying attention.
America like any other country on this planet need a reset. Wealth distribution need to be fixed but 1% of population who takes over 90% of generated wealth will never share willingly. I think peaceful options aren't on the table anymore.
Uh, just HOW do you propose to 'reboot" America? Do you unplug it, wait 10 seconds and plug it in again, like your router? Or do you just press "restart"?
Libertarian is just christian nationalism for people who believe in dungeons and dragons.
Sooo… are there some zesty massacres in preparation? Who will be the target? Redskins? N*******? Commies? 🤔
The only hope is a strong executive who wields power like a king, as did Washington, Lincoln, and FDR. It is the only way to break an oligarchy.
We need to Balkanize into 3 separate nations. The free republic, peoples republic and the non coastal west.
I've already counseled my kids to live abroad if possible. Anyone who has studied history knows you don't want to live in the death throes of a decaying empire.
As long as we restart from the point when we had judicial review and the knowledge we had, there are so many things that could be prevented like segregation, the espionage act, the income tax amendment, the patriot act, and so many more
It wouldn't work, because stupid voters would still be stupid voters.
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