Monday, January 30, 2017

Repeal and Replace

The Republicans have been talking a lot, lately, about "repeal and replace," not that they have any good plan for that. It's just all about their rabid drive to undo everything the black man did while he was in the White House. They're really a sad, pitiable lot, but I'll wait to pity them once they're no longer in control of things, because, right now, they're rampant destruction of everything good needs to be stopped. [Seriously, it's a government BY the people and FOR the people, but Republicans seem intent on handing everything over to corporations and greed.] Okay, no, I will probably never pity them just like I don't pity anyone who was a Nazi during World War II.

Okay, I'm getting off topic...

Now, just a little more than a week into Trump's presidency and all of the horrible things he's been doing (seriously, he's turning us into the playground bully, and Mexico is his current target to punch on and steal lunch money from (except he calls it "wall" money)), I think it's time for a new approach to Trump's administration.

See, what I've been seeing is people starting to focus on the 2018 midterm elections, and that's good! But I don't think it's good enough or soon enough. Trump's first week was a disaster, and, personally, I'm not into waiting two years before we can begin to mount an effective campaign to stop him. So I think it's time for us to have our own "repeal and replace" strategy.

Before I go on, yes, I know I live in CA and that I'm getting off easy with this idea. I mean, California is THE state setting itself up to be the opposition force to Trump and his agenda. And, well, we have the weight to do it as the 6th largest economy in the WORLD and being a state that gives more to the federal government than it gets back. HOWEVER...

It's like this, the thing that our congressmen, especially those in the House, want most, generally speaking, is to be re-elected. They spend, especially those in the House, inordinate amounts of time on that rather than just doing their jobs. Especially Republican congressmen considering they've spent most of the last decade almost literally doing nothing. So, while starting now on campaigns to get Democrats into office during the 2018 elections is a really good thing, that's still two years away, and incumbents tend to have an advantage during elections.

I don't think we need to wait. It's time to "repeal" some of those congressmen. That sounds so much better than "recall," don't you think? "Sorry, Ted Cruz, you've been repealed." Wouldn't that make such a great headline.

The hitch is that there is no mechanism for that... and it has never happened before. BUT!

Hey! Don't turn away from this just because it sounds impossible. Our government is still, theoretically, by the people and for the people, so, if we the people want a thing done, if enough of us get behind having that thing done, it should be possible to have that thing get done. That said, it's time for a movement to put into effect a recall mechanism, a repeal mechanism, for members of congress.

Some of you are thinking at this point, "Why don't we just go straight for the President?" Two reasons:
1. I think that would be much more difficult and wouldn't produce the desired result.
2. If Trump gets removed from office, that will leave us with Pence, who is possibly worse than Trump. No, he wouldn't spend his time trying to build an implausible wall; he would spend his time doing horrible things like funding conversion therapy.

Wait, wait! What's the desired result?

Well, the ideal result would be putting a mechanism into the Constitution to repeal congressmen. And, yes, that would take a long time, I'm sure, but, in the short run, it would let some Republican congressmen, especially those in the House, know that we are really, REALLY serious about opposing Trump and opposing the whole Conservative agenda that's set to turn our country back more than half a century, destroy the environment, and, possibly, involve us in some major confrontations if not all out war. Republicans who want to get re-elected are going to start listening to their constituents rather than toeing the Republican line. In fact, some of them might start doing the equivalent of grovelling to try to keep their seats.

Trump came into office on this whole idea of change and shaking up the establishment, something he's done NOTHING of. In fact, he's done the opposite by making the government even more establishment and by handing even more of it over to corporations. Now, it's time for us to be the change and to cause the change. It's time to stop Trump, and the best way to do that is stop Republicans. And it's time to do it now.

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    1. I was going to leave you a better comment, but sadly, it got repealed and replaced.

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  2. I hate them all, the republicans are particularly vile for wanting to take away health care from poor and disabled people because it isn't fair enough to insurance companies and the democrats for never standing up to them. I want to get rid of the whole lot. I plan to vote in the next primaries for anyone who isn't already in office.

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    1. Jeanne: Well, that would have been a vote for Trump. I mean, that's why a lot of people voted for him.

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  3. Joanne Noragon, who blogs at A Cup On The Bus, says we should put our beliefs in writing and send them to the people who represent us. She's sending post cards to various politicians. The next time I go out, I'll head for the post office to buy one hundred stamped post cards. Then I'm going to start writing to my representative and senators to tell them I'm not going to vote for them if they blindly follow Trump's lead. I shall bring up specifics, especially the treatment of immigrants and they'd damn well better not take away my healthcare.

    Love,
    Janie

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    1. Janie: I'm not sure that writing letters is an effective strategy anymore. I'm not sure anything is other than standing there at their offices. We keep hearing about phone lines and everything being disconnected because they don't want to hear dissenting voices.

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  4. (*Australian follower nodding approval in the background*) might not be my country, but the stuff happening will have a negative global effect and I wish I could do more than rage-post and march.

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  5. I agree that's it's a shame Blondie is able to repeal what was good in Obama's presidency. Has anyone started a comic strip about him yet? He'd probably want to 'lock em up' if they did. Will he squash the press or will they use him for target practice?

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    1. D.G.: Oh, he's trying to get rid of the press.
      CNN is under heavy fire, right now.

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