If we don't like the decisions they are making we vote them out and put representatives in that more reflect our values. That is why elections are so important.
Constitutionally we are "doing this together".
I don't agree with how she said it; it comes across as arrogant and elitist.
We do need to take this country back, though.
Constitutionally we are “doing this together”.
The Federal Government is way way way beyond the bounds of the Constitution.
I agree for the most part, except where you say its being done ‘constitutionally’. I don’t think many taxes, laws, regulations, etc are being done constitutionally (and I think most FReepers agree). Instead there are things being done in spite of the constitution, most specifically wrt state and individual rights, through congressional and executive overreach.
However the elected and subsequent appointed officials are not challenging this unconstitutional behavior, so yes, we must vote them out. This includes our state legislatures, whose job, I feel, includes making challenges to the feds on states rights. Not to mention states should get out of the fed’s state welfare trough.
Senators should still be appointed by the state’s legislature. That was a major crime against the states and the original intent of the constitution.
But, apart from people who seem in some ways extreme (i.e., Ron Paul) I am always left feeling that most ‘viable’ political candidates give the constitutionality issues lip service.
This is why we do need a third party. But as I posted many months ago, the third party should only operate as a principled caucus within congress, and should NOT try to push for a presidential candidate, but get the GOP candidate to acknowledge and agree to act on their issues with constitutional violations.
and then there’s the SCOTUS