Is it time to have a peaceful overthrow of our government? Should we scrap the DNC and RNC and re-write laws?

Question

It is obvious the DNC and RNC no longer feel they owe the public any sort of real allegiance. The Fair Tax issue will not be heard, the borders won't get shut, and we allow ballots to be written in 120 languages. Without protecting our borders, language, and culture are elected leaders are representing Lobbies, foreign interests, and global corporations. Every election is a choice between Dumb and Dumber. Is time to scrap the the current constitution and remove all leaders, hold new elections to determine how to re-write the constitution, in order to protect our country from being taken over by people who have no interest in assimilating to be an American?

Answer 1

Amen couldnt have said it better myself.

Answer 2

1.) Please define the Culture of the United States without resorting to a religious argument.

2) We have every opportunity for your peaceful revolution. It is called an election. Get off the Internet and get into the streets and start working for it. However, having said that, be sure you use the Internet to fully explain your propositions to the Citizens of the United States. Use bullet points, and keep the narrative short. The shorter the better. Get the idea across in as few words as possible.

3.) We have the ability to change the constitution. It requires a clear majority of the nation to affirm the changes. So you had best make sure your changes are clear cut, and acceptable to the majority of the nation.

4.) The Eastern half of the United States spoke English in the 1770s. However, our nation includes lands settled by the French, and Mexico. When we acquired those lands, through purchasing, and a very questionable war under Poke, we became obligated to assimilate the cultures or force resettlement of those populations. Historically, our base language should be bi-lingual. French not withstand, we should have English and Spanish as our official languages. Don't get bent at me about this, I only read history I don't make it up.

5.) Basically you have a good idea. If it is broken, fix it. There is Nothing wrong with that. You are also on the right track that we need to define who we are now as a nation. We do this every 80 years or so. However, you have to make sure your approach accommodates all the people who are now alive in the U.S. (sorry about the typos, the spell checker just crapped out)

I think you are a young man, which is my take on your pix; you have the next 20 years to do this. It will not take you that long if you can build the coalition necessary and present clear ideas. But it is going to take time.

Wish you will, you are on the right track.
Cliff Potts
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P.S. I have included a couple of links which may be useful for you. And some groups I run. Feel free to contact me if you would like to discuss this further.

Answer 3

The Constitution is fine! If we would actually adhere to it. The biggest problem facing " We the people" today is "We the people" aren't paying attention to Congress. We have the power, but do not hold anyone on Capital hill accountable for anything. If you ran any Company the way we allow our Country to be operated. You would be fired! The Democrat's don't stand for anything these days and the Republicans don't stand for the what they said they did to gain the majority. Slowly but very surely our freedom's are eroding! Don't think so? Read the Constitution, then think again! There are other options/parties, that only need to be heard to gain support! The libertarian party is a great choice! Fiscal conservatives/ social moderates. With the goal of a smaller less intrusive form of Government! Does that sound so bad???

Answer 4

Scrapping the existing political parties may have merit. But you have a chance at an overthrow this year! That is the beauty of the Constitution and what it represents. The thing to do is encourage candidates who will honestly abide by it, and get rid of unnecessary and onerous laws. I WOULD like to see lobbying laws and suchlike tightened, AND especially, cut back on the bureaucracy. The old finance laws (c. 1970) basically allowed unlimited contributions, but required the donors to identify themselves. This was limited after Watergate, and the McCain-Feingold mess confused things even more. This has only encouraged other organizations to take over the job. Note that this has NOT caused a major reduction in political cash....

Answer 5

We can try to over throw the Govt - but wouldn't it be alot easier to hope that an independent party will rise to the occasion? The US Govt is no longer a body of the people, for the people, by the people. They are there for themselves. They no longer work for the people. They work for the votes. I agree with almost everything you said except scrapping the constitution. It's already changed so much from the original constitution to fit the changing times. Besides that, do you even think we could find one politician in the US that wouldn't want to have a hand in writing it? Talk about corruption!

Answer 6

I think *some* of these things myself from time to time, but with so few people wanting the same thing, this only *sounds* like a good idea, but in practice it would be a disaster.

For example, I think shutting our borders would be impractical and foolish, "fair tax" is hardly well thought out, nor am I worried that we will head towards a Babylon mishmash of languages with the Paperwork Reduction Act in place.

The Constitution was designed to be a "living document" - up for revisions. Why reinvent the wheel?

It reminds me of something my namesake once said:

"There is an ugly name for those who do things the hard way."

Answer 7

The only way to have a drastic change in governance peacefully is either for Congress to pass a constitutional amendment by a 2/3 vote and have it ratified by 3/4 of the states or for the 2/3 of the states legislatures to call for a constitutional convention with whatever amendments proposed at that convention then ratified by 3/4 of the states.

Answer 8

I think what you're after is the Independence Party. A party consisting of people that kind of wanna 'go retro' and undo a lot of the more recent changes in our laws and the general status quo in america. I agree that the DNC and the GOP 'lifted off' from reality-land some time ago, but given Rep, Kennedy's recent revelations, maybe it's time for some drug testing. AND some remedial math courses....AND the introduction of an established 3rd party, such as the Independents. Independence is good. Independence is our FRIEND! LOL

Answer 9

Well, nothing wrong with the Constitution ... and don't we have a constitutional right to defend the country from enemies, from within and without ... and do we have any bigger enemies of the nation that our elected representatives? Personally I would consider a govt that's more interested in the affairs and wellbeing of another country's citizens than our own an enemy of the American people ... am I wrong?

Answer 10

You have some good points but I think it's a little drastic to scrap the constitution. If you've got all this bad feeling over the last two elections, how do you think coming up with a new constitution would go?

Answer 11

The constitution is perfect. The problem is the people who we "elect". We will need to force them to comply to the constitution and our country will be great again.
Does anybody notice that when the deer, wolf, bear, elk populations get too big we go in and remove some to bring it back down. Well maybe it is time for that in government. It has gotten too big. Now is time to remove some and give the power back to the people.