If you get into office and change your tune to the opposite of what you ran on, we have to primary you? Shouldn’t that be cause for removal in its own? You work for me, idrgaf what your opinions are.
Lower levels have “recall elections” for this explicit reason.
They’re not built into Senatorships, because people weren’t even supposed to vote for Senator’s, state governments were supposed to just appoint them as the states representatives
The house was for the people to have representation, not the Senate.
We’re way past the point of salvaging our system, there’s a reason the founder’s wanted to redo the constitution every 20 years
Lower levels have “recall elections” for this explicit reason.
States have rolled a lot of that back, or made it so prohibitively expensive to attempt that only billionaires can oust a state politician they don’t like.
I might argue that the problem isn’t Fetterman specifically, but the stakes at play when someone like Fetterman is a singular representative for 13M people. One Fetterman in a sea of politicians would be annoying but incidental. One in a tiny cabal that’s on a tipping point of partisan control is glaring in it’s corruption.
The U.S. really need a party whipping system closer to that of the UK; the current system lets candidates drastically switch platforms after being elected without any short-term consequences.
This system is a pile of shit.
If you get into office and change your tune to the opposite of what you ran on, we have to primary you? Shouldn’t that be cause for removal in its own? You work for me, idrgaf what your opinions are.
Funny how we champion “Democracy” when our system never really was one.
“(…) the Senate ruled in 1798 that senators could not be impeached, but only expelled (…)
In other words: they are generally more immune than the president.
What a fun flavor democracy the US has.
Something something constitutional republic
@stermy4u He and the rest of them should be removed. But since rich criminals are killing this country, it won’t happen for generations.
You have to wait six years, and then you get to primary.
This is because the Founding Fathers, in all their wisdom, determined that loud patriotic farting noises
Lower levels have “recall elections” for this explicit reason.
They’re not built into Senatorships, because people weren’t even supposed to vote for Senator’s, state governments were supposed to just appoint them as the states representatives
The house was for the people to have representation, not the Senate.
We’re way past the point of salvaging our system, there’s a reason the founder’s wanted to redo the constitution every 20 years
I just finished reading Allow Me to Retort, which is brilliant:
https://thenewpress.org/books/allow-me-to-retort/
It is an in-depth review of what a dumpster fire the US Constitution is.
States have rolled a lot of that back, or made it so prohibitively expensive to attempt that only billionaires can oust a state politician they don’t like.
I might argue that the problem isn’t Fetterman specifically, but the stakes at play when someone like Fetterman is a singular representative for 13M people. One Fetterman in a sea of politicians would be annoying but incidental. One in a tiny cabal that’s on a tipping point of partisan control is glaring in it’s corruption.
The U.S. really need a party whipping system closer to that of the UK; the current system lets candidates drastically switch platforms after being elected without any short-term consequences.
Eh, the issue is in my opinion that one side harshly whips their side into holding rank until recently, and the other does nothing.
John Fetterman is also a piece of shit.