I started this blog several years ago, and while I have changed my mind on certain points, both in terms of the bombasticness with which I deliver them and the self righteous assuredness that I had; the core of everything that I was saying remains true, and is no more clearly demonstrated by six rogue seditious court members one of whom by all accounts should be put on trial for Rape. Everyone is innocent until proven guilty by Kavanaugh was given free reign in a highly dubious manner by the FBI and the Trump DoJ and has shown the repeated flaws in our system.
I created the podcast series 11 Fixes for a Broken Everything as a vaccine against those who said I was trying to repair a totally broken system with a new one without trying to stay in the current frame work. Everything in that series could be done by just a regular law and the president. Of course, at the time I made it, I was unable to imagine the corrupt and thoroughly coopted political lives that Senator Manchin and Senator Sinema demonstrated showing why the Senator truly is the Floater house.
Indeed, while I am not the first to say that the constitution needs a reboot, I find that all the points I made when I started when I made this blog still stand; the legislature is corrupt, the courts are coopted and the executive is either fascist or inept. Too much power is collected in the wrong places and too much separation of power exists in other places. If you dont separate the ability to prosecute from the ability to enforce then you have an executive who never investigates itself and that a following executive is reluctant to prosecute since the next administration might do the same thing and they might deprive themselves of useful tools (as they sit it) to implement their agenda. The senate is blindingly undemocratic (as it was intended) and its control thereof makes things only worse.
That's why I'm making Rhombus Tick's "A Constitutional History of Terra" for the Tossing Grenades at Windmills Podcast. It will start with a humorous anecdote about why a more functional democracy in a far more dangerous (and therefore interesting) world than our own adopted a constitutional change along with me pontificating about why we should apply the change in our own reality. I planned this long before the complete abomination that is Dobbs.
The thing about the current court is; they're now comfortably saying the quiet part out loud. We know they're going to allow a republican legislator to select Electoral Electors, we know that they will allow them to bypass state constitutions. Its not just Dobbs, is abomination after abomination and frankly the democrats are completely and utterly unprepared to handle this. We need to be in this for the long haul and overcome not only Republicans and foreign powers anxious for the complete destruction of the American Hegemony but Centrists, Civility Democrats and Semantics Democrats as well. But America is a nation of dreamers, and I believe we can rise to the challenge.
The road will be long, painful and likely bloody as they literally try to kill us for doing the right thing. But in the end, it will be worth it.
