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Is it time for a new constitutional convention? If we don't like the way things are... change the constitution rather than constant circumvention by external tactics. The system is broken and convoluted. Get all the issues out in the public forum by honest discourse and let the ideas win or loose on merit. Clean our houses methodically and cautiously with the procedures outlined in the Constitution. Develop attention-spans and discipline so we don't collectively fall for the constant spin. We've become like heroine addicts to the knee-jerk pablum we're regularly fed.
We are a constitutional republic, not a democracy. Democracy becomes unfocused mob-rule regardless of best intentions. Authoritarian rule lives in the extremes of both left and right (fascism, social-nationalism, socialism, communism, theocracies). I think the framework has always been in place and Americans are generally good-willed. Perhaps redefining what "winning" means relative to our politics should be influenced by all of us being less political. Divisiveness only spawns extremes. Extremes will push us more and more toward authoritarianism. Can't we just try to calm down and begin speaking from common ground rather than ideology?
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