Sunday, January 21, 2018

Troubleshooting guide

Susan Grigsby, writing for Daily Kos, laments out Constitution doesn’t have an appendix with a troubleshooting guide. Many instruction manuals have a place to look when things don’t work as intended. But we don’t have one for our democracy. What should we do when Congress refuses to do the checks and balances on the Executive? What steps to take when Congress refuses to do its job (that financial stuff, which this shutdown is all about, should have been handled by October 1st with an actual budget). What’s the remedy when extreme wealth creates historic levels of inequality and control of the media? What steps should we take when perjury charges should be brought against Cabinet secretaries and aren’t? What’s the plan when gerrymandering is so bad the vote can’t be the remedy? Sure wish we had that troubleshooting guide. Or a reset button.

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