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Boogiemack

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15. Amendments are just that. Amendments it can be done. Why would anyone be against it?
Tue Nov 24, 2020, 09:51 PM
Nov 2020

Not having that as a requirement is what has opened the door to so much corruption and aided Citizens United to fester and ruin our democracy.

To me, CORRUPTION, domestic and international. Corruption of despotic leaders like Trump is what has the world teetering on the brink of total moral and physical destruction. We, America, should take the lead by example of rooting out the corruption that we can expose and require of leaders who are responsible for the lives and well-being of their countrymen and women. There should be an international law of decency maybe unwritten and unspoken, but universally agreed upon. We should refuse to do business with autocrats who set out to fulfill their own greed lusts for wealth and power instead of ruling by concern for the safety and health of their own people. Leaders can be wealthy without having to starve, kill, and maime their own people and deny them a means to reap a livelihood for themselves and their families. And they should be held accountable for their actions that threaten our mutual environment and natural resources like air and water.

CORRUPTION should become one of the important bywords of American leadership from now on. This notion of weeding out corruption should be on the table of nations and the UN. It ties into food insecurity, illness, poverty, war, and environment assault. Making that plain to the people of the nations ought to encourage them to overthrow greedy and discriminatory despots.

It's a dream...but "you gotta have a dream or how you gonna have a dream come true?"

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I'm not sure it would survive a challenge. Would probably require an amendment to work. bullimiami Nov 2020 #1
If we get the Senate in the Georgia run-offs, it can be new legislation without being an amendment. brush Nov 2020 #4
Yes but consider. Presidential eligibility requirements are spelled out in the Constitution. bullimiami Nov 2020 #8
Or course there we no tax turns then. I say pass legislation if we have the majority... brush Nov 2020 #10
The law of course would mean an immediate court challenge as you said. totodeinhere Nov 2020 #11
Probably so, but it would have to go to a circuit court first, right and who knows what... brush Nov 2020 #12
Amendments are just that. Amendments it can be done. Why would anyone be against it? Boogiemack Nov 2020 #15
I thought you were gonna say 'if Jill Stein's father had loved her more' ... but turns out it was mr_lebowski Nov 2020 #2
Oh but remember, poor little Donny isn't allowed to share his tax returns... Blue Owl Nov 2020 #3
Hugo Chavez isn't finished going over them yet. calimary Nov 2020 #21
Even more so, require they pass a basic security clearance... Wounded Bear Nov 2020 #5
That too. Delmette2.0 Nov 2020 #40
His cult wouldn't have cared lilmamba Nov 2020 #6
Making his returns public might not have turned off his cult but... Gidney N Cloyd Nov 2020 #19
Do you really think any of them believed he had the wealth he claimed? relayerbob Nov 2020 #31
This message was self-deleted by its author Gidney N Cloyd Nov 2020 #37
I'm sure Deutsche Bank and the Russians knew. But wasn't propping up his image to the world part of Gidney N Cloyd Nov 2020 #38
If we had voted in 2016. But now that it's about over, maybe it's a good lesson. Hoyt Nov 2020 #7
Maybe they should be able to pass a standard background check? Just an idea. n/t Whiskeytide Nov 2020 #9
All candidates should be able to pass a security check LeeAndrews Nov 2020 #13
Welcome to DU, LeeAndrews! calimary Nov 2020 #25
Welcome to our DU family. niyad Nov 2020 #33
+1 MustLoveBeagles Nov 2020 #35
I'm afraid it would be unconstitutional. The Constitution lays out the requirements. GulfCoast66 Nov 2020 #14
... we had an educated electorate. Not the BS system we have now. n/t Pobeka Nov 2020 #16
Congress can request anybody's tax returns NotASurfer Nov 2020 #17
Candidates also need to get the highest security clearance. nature-lover Nov 2020 #18
I'd also add that if someone is running for president Bettie Nov 2020 #20
Yeah, and you should demonstrate some actual evidence of public service bucolic_frolic Nov 2020 #22
I think it's a great idea. BobTheSubgenius Nov 2020 #23
Agree Joinfortmill Nov 2020 #24
A really simple step and so Necessary since the "i'm not a crook guy" and for Crooked Donald RANDYWILDMAN Nov 2020 #26
We could have avoided Donald Trump AmericanCanuck Nov 2020 #27
You assume that the people who voted for him cared relayerbob Nov 2020 #28
2 part answer stopdiggin Nov 2020 #29
and his enabler, Mitch McConnell Demonaut Nov 2020 #30
I think the best way to prevent the next Trump is reinstate the fairness doctrine Bucky Nov 2020 #32
Ever since the Eagleton fiasco, I have thought that every candidate for our highest offices niyad Nov 2020 #34
I don't think his followers care. GeorgeGist Nov 2020 #36
I don't believe that is constitutional. The requirements are laid out in the Constitution. Demsrule86 Nov 2020 #39
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