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What the Constitution Didn’t Say - and Why It Matters Now
Flopping Aces ^ | 08-19-25 | Vince

Posted on 08/19/2025 6:40:22 AM PDT by Starman417

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To: metmom
All true.

When I talk about the synergies between the Congressional and local districts, the overlap but not align. Voting for your state assemblyman and state senators are important, too, but their direct influence on Congress is muted now.

I don't know how much corruption goes into the state races, and if it does, whether the corruption is coming from the same or from different interests.

-PJ

41 posted on 08/19/2025 9:26:23 AM PDT by Political Junkie Too ( * LAAP = Left-wing Activist Agitprop Press (formerly known as the MSM))
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To: delchiante

Term limits isn’t going to mitigate the Swamp.

What would happen is that a congresscritter who gets termed out would name an heir apparent. The Swamp would illegitimately fund this heir to the seat and we’d have the same problem.

There is no easy fix.


42 posted on 08/19/2025 9:38:41 AM PDT by fwdude (Why is there a "far/radical right," but damned if they'll admit that there is a far/radical left?)
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To: fwdude

‘Easiest’ is 1766 obliteration and drain.

Then make those 535 Congress critters part time with minium wage salary, and term limits, so it is the worst possible career move ever..

Maybe then instead of being ruled over, we’d be represented..

Wouldn’t be easy but spying using hoax info, hoax impeachments, Wuhan Coup Flued, and stolen elections should have consequences for the area these events were birthed from.


43 posted on 08/19/2025 9:48:54 AM PDT by delchiante
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To: fwdude
The only term limits should be elections.

The only term limits should be honest elections, which we don't currently have.

44 posted on 08/19/2025 2:28:01 PM PDT by itsahoot (Many Republicans are secretly Democrats, no Democrats are secretly Republicans. Dan Bongino.)
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To: Starman417
The tragedy isn’t that our heroes change when they get to Washington.
The tragedy is that we keep expecting them not to. Unknown

45 posted on 08/19/2025 2:28:59 PM PDT by itsahoot (Many Republicans are secretly Democrats, no Democrats are secretly Republicans. Dan Bongino.)
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To: Starman417

Get rid of the Federal Reserve, and deficit spending would be not much fun. They would have to raise taxes in broad daylight, and people would be filled with revulsion. That is a word that denote revolt, isn’t it?


46 posted on 08/19/2025 2:36:23 PM PDT by Glad2bnuts
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To: exnavy

Please do not get hung up on that word!
Surely you can see the point of the post?
Is there really some meaningful difference between what is happening to us and what YOU call a democracy.
Please include your terminology guidelines so that in future we only use your permitted words.
Anyway we do have a republic either.
We are under an all encompassing bureaucratic tyranny!


47 posted on 08/20/2025 6:11:06 AM PDT by BDParrish ("Do you see the CRJ)
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To: BDParrish

Democracy is mob rule. The attendees of the very first constitution openly condemned “democracy”. Democracy is the only form of governance where we the people can vote to have you eliminated. That is not our form of government.


48 posted on 08/20/2025 9:35:52 AM PDT by exnavy (See article IV section 4 of our constitution.)
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