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NNadir

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10. The history of attempts to remove Presidents...
Fri Dec 21, 2018, 09:30 AM
Dec 2018

...from office demonstrates that it is difficult.

I don't agree in these times that "rightly so" is something with which I'd agree.

Our Constitution functioned well for more than 2 centuries. But it was written by slave holders whose goals included protecting slavery, hence the existence of the Electoral College, which got us into this awful mess.

As a scientist, I am aware of certain applications of technology that scare the hell out of me. This information is largely publicly available if you look. People talk about nuclear weapons passing into the hands of people who are clearly insane, as has just happened,but actually, launching a nuclear war involves the technical acquiescence of a large body of people.

Not so, biologic weapons.

We need a "no confidence" mechanism in a new constitution.

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