Posted on 03/20/2019 8:18:49 PM PDT by GuavaCheesePuff
Former Congressman John Dingell, Jr., a partisan Democrat whose immediate family has controlled the same seat in the House of Representatives for 86 years, has some suggestions for fixing Congress. We should abolish the Senate and the Electoral College because they're undemocratic, "despite the constitutional hurdles of doing so." In 2015, Dingell retired from the U.S. House seat he's held since 1955, the seat he inherited from his father, John Dingell, Sr., who first won it in 1932. The seat has passed to John Jr.'s much-younger wife, Rep. Debbie Dingell, who was just re-elected in November. (Full disclosure: For 20 years, my wife and I have lived in Dearborn, Michigan, which is inside the Dingell fiefdom and looks as though it may be in perpetuity.)
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
What’s the saying—history never repeats itself, but it sometimes rhymes? Our founders modeled our government after the Roman Republic. When the Republic started to collapse, various leaders tried to stop the fall—Julius Caesar taking up the task. His nephew, Augustus kept telling people he was restoring the Republic but when he died, Rome fell into the hands of his crazy relatives, Tiberius, Gaius—better known as Caligula and Nero. After them, the hope of a rebirth of the Republic was lost forever. I’d rather not go down that road.
By the way, Perot gave us 8 years of the rapist in chief who is also revered in your party.
A lot of disillusioned voters out there.....a lot of people voted for Gary Johnson, Nader, Perot, etc.
Time to build a Conservative party and the reamsing rebubs will go democrat. The. GOP should be disappeared
You mean you are a disillusioned voter, still butthurt with Cankles defeat. No conservative would have voted for any of your trash list.
Thank God for the electoral college. Thank God for the orange man.
Yes ... A few people voted for Nader ... enough, perhaps to put GW Bush in the White House instead of Al Gore. More than a few voted for Perot ... enough, probably, to put Bill Clinton in the White House instead of GHW Bush.
Don’t forget George Wallace, who carried five states and earned forty-something electoral votes ... but was still irrelevant to the outcome.
Still don’t see how abolishing the EC would help the next Wallace, Perot, Nader.
Not saying it doesn’t ... just don’t see it. Hope you can help me understand.
Only democrats want the EC abolished. Think President Cankles. And think about President DeBlasio or President Ocasio-Cortez in 2024.
I see the EC as one of our defenses against tyranny. OTOH, I see the two party system in its current form as a force for tyranny.
I'm willing to listen to the guy's argument. In the end I may reject it, but at least I'll know what I'm rejecting.
The Electoral College issue is not negotiable. Again, we don’t want President DeBlasio or President Ocasio-Cortez. The commiecrat party is all in for converting the USA to a socialist/fascist state. All the free stuff they are promising their deadbeat-laden base will get them the popular vote. The ratio of deadbeats to good people has crossed one and it’s going to get worse with our open borders.
Glad to see that Rameriz included Mexico in that ‘toon.
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