That last part is super important. We know this administration is building concentration camps for non-citizens. It’s a logical next step to extend that to citizens and non-citizens alike with ties to the counties he doesnt like. Whose gonna stop him?
Well, if it comes to that Mamdani will try his best to stop him. And since Trump seems to have a man crush on Mamdani, maybe it will work where other interventions haven’t.
My father always used to tell me that the reason we don’t have requirements on academic qualifications for political office is that in a democracy everyone should have the same chance to get to govern and on the merit of their ideas and character, and that placing academic rules on governance would create an unfair advantage for the privileged and only further entrench class divisions.
I thought he had a point but was wrong when he was alive, and I think he has a point and is wrong now that he’s dead. Our society is much too complex for people who have no formal education or the capacity for critical thinking to handle governing hundreds of millions of people at a time.
I feel like he had a point, but I feel like I do, too. I wouldn’t mind seeing some form of aptitude test. I mean jeez, you have to take a test to drive a car, but whichever snake oil salesman can decide to plunge the world into war? I don’t know…
I have always felt that the only arbiter of academic qualifications should be the voters. If someone can make their case to voters directly, the it shouldn’t matter how formally educated they are.
However, this assumes that voters actually determine who gets those seats. More than 90% of House seats are in districts that are drawn to be so safe for one side or the other that the general election is a formality. A politician who can fend off primary challenges can essentially hold on to that seat forever, regardless of qualifications.
That’s why we keep electing dumbasses to Congress. They know how to game the system. How do we fix that? I don’t see any way out as long as parties can game districts like that.
There will never be another amendment to the constitution passed in the present form of our government. It would take a complete collapse of the federal government and a new constitutional convention.
As it stands, there is no way to get 2/3 of the states to agree on anything. You couldn’t even get 2/3 of the senate to agree that the sky is blue.
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