“I do not comprehend why there is no criminal mechanism to remove a politician from office when they violate their campaign promises to their constituents...and don’t tell me about recalls, most of those fail...”
Except for the mechanism to remove lying politicians, why are there no mechanisms to remove lying politicians?
Not sure I get you here.
But yes, recalls are hard and take a lot of work that, frankly, too few of us are willing (or have time) to do. Having a completely corrupt Republican party doesn’t help and neither do those Republican voters willing to hold their nose and vote for any liar no matter what(imho). As long as there is no political cost to liberal Republicans, nothing will change.
So, instead of trying to do something, it’s better to let the “system” defeat us and just let our nation be dragged down into the sewer because it’s easier.
Sad comentary.
In Brazil, poor people are rioting over the money Brazil has spent to host the olympics. Across the Middle East, people rioted and had civil wars over politicians that never leave. In some parts of the world, freedom and liberty still mean something. In the 1980s, one young man in Tienanmen Square in China had the courage to face down a tank.
But, NOT in America. We have become too apathetic to get off our butts and fight for the country we claim to love. We’re too sure that we can fix the ills of our country at the next election by re-electing the same people who created the problems. We can’t be bothered to go into the streets en masse and tell the politicians that Fast & Furious is not ok; that Benghazi was murder committed at the highest levels and someone needs to be held accountable; that spying on American citizens in clear violation of the 4th Amendment is an outrage that needs to be addressed; that holding America hostage to the oppressive and tyrannical demands of a fraudulent leader who wants to deprive us of a major source of electrical power by banning coal-fired power plants is not the direction America wants or needs to take; that dismantling the military to pretend that our multi-trillion dollar deficit is getting better not worse is the worst kind of fraud.
Yeah, doing something to stand up for America and opposing the direction into which we are being dragged is just too much work; let someone else do it because we have to work even though the new immigration bill passed by the Senate penalizes employers $5000 for hiring American citizens to do the job an illegal should have.
If we start now, we may make it through every national cemetary apologizing to the veterans who gave their lives fighting just so we could come to this point in our history!