Posted on 12/12/2018 6:28:34 PM PST by Kaslin
Former Congressman John Dingell, Jr., a partisan Democrat whose immediate family has controlled the same seat in the House of Representatives for 86 years, has some suggestions for fixing Congress. We should abolish the Senate and the Electoral College because they're undemocratic, "despite the constitutional hurdles of doing so." In 2015, Dingell retired from the U.S. House seat he's held since 1955, the seat he inherited from his father, John Dingell, Sr., who first won it in 1932. The seat has passed to John Jr.'s much-younger wife, Rep. Debbie Dingell, who was just re-elected in November. (Full disclosure: For 20 years, my wife and I have lived in Dearborn, Michigan, which is inside the Dingell fiefdom and looks as though it may be in perpetuity.)
Dingell is kvetching about "the complete collapse" of respect for government since he first held office and "an unprecedented cynicism about the nobility of public service itself." Things were much better in 1958, when "73 percent of Americans trusted the federal government 'to do the right thing almost always or most of the time.'" Now it's down to 18%, and Dingell blames this decline mostly on Republican wrongdoing like Watergate, the Iraq War, and "Ronald Reagan's folksy but popular message that government was not here to help." "[W]orst of all by far," he writes, is "the Trumpist mind-set" held by "jackasses who see 'deep state' conspiracies in every part of government[.]"
What really burns Dingell is how his party's numerical electoral advantage – widely expected to continue growing as caravans of illegal aliens flood into the country – isn't translating into an America run strictly according to Democrat ideas. Why not? Because "sparsely populated, usually conservative states can block legislation supported by a majority of the American people."
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Hey John just drop dead!
It’s called “parliament.”
At least half the country doesn’t care about the Constitution. And all of these illegal aliens meant to replace us don’t care about it either.
Dingell and his fellow Corruptokkkrats are why the American people have such a low opinion of them.
Demonrat tinkering with the constitution to favor them at every turn. Hmmm. Let me think...no thanks. That’s not what has worked for 242 years.
So in this man's opinion "democratic" is the quality that overrides all others. Such is why Athen's pure democracy committed the same and worse atrocities committed by the oligarchal Sparta during the Pelloponisian War. Our founders understood what this youngster does not.
A tyranny of 51% is no better than the tyranny of one person. Justice, righteousness, mercy, ownershio of one's own property earned with their hard labor, and freedom are all good and supreme virtues. The person that calls on one virtue above and in place of all others, seeks his own interest.
“. . . whose immediate family has controlled the same seat in the House of Representatives for 86 years . . . “
In England they used to call these “rotten boroughs.”
and all parties except the Dems ? LOL
I know and that just makes my blood boil.
Shut up, Dingleberry.
You know, dingleberry (and others) spraying utter crap such as that will get the attention of the upcoming socialists currently infesting the "democratic" party and they will at some point combine such seditious goals with their spoiled brat stupidity from universities and colleges where every adult in the place told them they are right, smart and special.
Furious demands will ensue and eventually a group of them will form to push their sedition WAY too far.
When the backlash starts they will not know how to back it down, they will only continue to double down on whatever fascists actions they are undertaking.
Then the really ugly part will start.
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The already tore up the Constitution on Usurpation Day, January 20, 2009.
Barack Obama is NOT a natural born citizen.
Both parties cooperated to violate the Constitution.
——”an unprecedented cynicism about the nobility of public service itself.——
Interesting choice of words on the part of this vested bureaucrat… There is definitely a deep cynicism among the ordinary citizens in the country about the fact that “public service“ has resulted in an entitled nobility, replete with fiefdoms, lines of familial succession, special rules etc. typical of the Monarchies & feudal states of old.
Abolish the 16th and the 17th Amendments
Absolutely!
After the Shutdown, reopen fed gov’t with Bill of Rights restored (all 10).
The next State of the Union speech should be in the form of question and answer just like they do in London. It would be very entertaining. Skin in the game for the rats. My suggestion would be to do it during the Super Bowl halftime. Cut into the ratings. Or maybe during the Oscars. Getting good.
Perhaps the best argument yet for term limits. What is this - a f***ing aristocracy?!
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