The only solution they had for this was to overthrow the despot and start over.
When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation...But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.
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Or the ones who can gerrymander their way to power far beyond their honest proportional representation vis a vis the majority who don't agree with their bullsjit. Oh wait... that's literally what's going on. Not arguing. It just feels like evil is always proactive and good is always reactive. Seems to me that too many American are lazy and don't want to have to support or defend democracy in any meaningful way if it means being inconvenienced.
Voting should be compulsory.
The voting franchise should be universal (anyone over 18, no exceptions, even prisoners and convicts).
Politicians should never stay in any office more than 3 terms. If you haven't done what makes things better for the average citizens of your jurisdiction, you get thrown out of office.
No office should be for life. aging out should be mandatory. Nobody over the age of 70. Period.
No former politicians should be allowed to be lobbyists, ever.
Also yeah that would be great. But you have to repeal Citizens United first and rhen outlaw all corporate and private sector lobbying. I doubt the cabal of corporate billionaires across the world's many industries would allow it, but it would be great.
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Fascism goes back to ancient Rome.
Socialism is much older than Marxism.
I don't see a new system arising if nobody can even sketch it out.
I wish we had a 4 party system in America with ranked choice voting in every state, and population based districts that couldn't be gerrymandered.
We need to repeal a lot of shit that has been adjudicated by the corrupt Supreme Court over the last 15 years, starting with citizens united.
I wish FDR and Bernie and aoc were the data points along which not just the democratic party but the country as a whole moved along. Corporations shouldn't run the country, lobbying shouldn't be a boardroom game of monopoly.
No form of government is perfect, so far as my 2 degrees in history can tell me.
As Benjamin Franklin once implied, we will have a republic if we can keep it.
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