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So, checkit yo, built-in to the system is an open-ended upgrade path that avoids bloodshed. All you gotta do is get representatives of 50 states to agree to it.
If you’ve got a better system than that serving 400 million politically, ethnically, religiously, economically diverse people in practice, in the real world somewhere, let’s see it.
You don’t, of course but if you just want to shit on this one because reasons, simply indicate your preferred method to end all corruption and how you’d like to implement it without bloodshed.
If you come down of your high horse for a moment you'll realise the person you replied to is talking about how if a single person can take America from a broadly functioning society to having jack booted thugs murdering people on the streets and deploying the army to quell dissent and alienating the entirety of their network of alliances and trade partners in the space of two weeks something in the vaunted "checks and balances" has gone wrong.
As if we all aren’t painfully aware of what that thing is and how it has almost nothing to do with the “system” being shit upon.
No governmental system, real or imagined, is going to work that well when led by a demented, sociopathic, pathological lying rapist felon, backed by a thoroughly brainwashed cult and the entirety of the largest fucking industries on the planet.
So, sure The Constitution was deliberately written in such a way as to allow that, as one of our commenters would have it. Bullshit. It’s not “the system”, as in the Constitution. It’s a lot of things, but it’s not that.
This is a nation under unceasing attack by known psychological warfare methods for a decade at least, and rupert murdoch for thirty years. You’re pissing on the wrong thing. Wrongly.
If you had a popular vote instead of your weird ass elector thing, then Hillary Clinton had been president in 2016. That would have been the end of Trump.
Well you're right about that. Let's remember the "Slaver's College" was a late addition and one we'd all love to see gone.