Before we beat ourselves up over how to resolve the problems our country faces nine months into a 2nd trump/maga [FN1] term in the Oval Office, we need to realize:

trump/maga doesn’t want to resolve the problems we face. That’s why they do nothing. 1/10

They hold: Oval Office, House & Senate, & a 6 lick-spittle super-majority on SCOTUS to rubber-stamp what they do. Legislation? The big bullshit bill has been a failure. Anything else? Dictatorial decrees (a/k/a Executive…

Some say we are in a constitutional crisis [FN1] [FN2] similar to the years before the Civil War. Racism, institutionalized as chattel slavery, was why States seceded. [FN3] They refrained from attacking our Constitution (which protected slavery) [FN4] & even copied it, in 1/9

substance, in 1861, but added an invocation to “the favor and guidance of Almighty God” and a bar to “denying or impairing the right of property in negro slaves.” [FN5 [FN6]

Last week Greg Olear, on his…

Specific issues, within the constitutional crisis that we face, should be discussed only after we understand a foundational problem some want to ignore. Like rusty and broken pipes, deep in the ground, unless fixed the system only will worsen & sicken those who drink the water. 1/6

We look at the past & try to understand our present. Each July 4, we celebrate the signing (the actual date of which was July 2, 1776 [FN1]) of a document. As kids we are taught that things that…

Sen Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) said today that a “third term”in office for trump is clearly forbidden by the Constitution. [FN1] She explained that even if a convention is called under Article V and a “new” Constitution is written, still there are steps that must be taken to ratify it. 1/6

There will be no further steps taken and the “new” Constitution that only a fool would think is not already written by people at the Heritage Foundation. Because once called to order, such a convention…