It seems to me things are turning around ever so slowly to our benefit. It us a constant struggle but worth it. Sounds like you just want to wage war for the sake of it.
That's a tough one. Civilian oversight committee's?
I'm sure you could find a lot of ex-service people who would be happy to man the fort.
I mention military because they take oaths of allegiance to the flag & constitution and whilst they might have personal preferences regarding politics, it tends to be less extreme than most (although there are always exceptions). Plus they usual have the necessary security clearances to know stuff and be trusted not to blab it in public unless there is a specific need to in order to protect the constitution.
For example, there are rumours going around that DJT has already secured the backing of the military. He could only have done that if he had convinced them the consitution was under threat. Apparently some have even gone as far as to say they would never accept Biden as president.
How about that for a check & balance? Of course, with all this going on behind the scenes and with me being on the other side of the pond, information is limited and hard to validate reliably.
You basically replace it with a system with more transparency but effectively the same otherwise.
Shit take, the system failed because it's flawed, increasing transparency isn't going to do shit in the long run. I don't know what the ideal system would be, but doing more of the same is a terrible idea.
There are elements of the US system which work really well, it would be daft to throw out the good stuff just because it's susceptible to infiltration and corruption.
IMHO you should keep what works, work out what went wrong, and fix things so that the same things can't go wrong again.
Eliminating money from the equation should be the top goal though, lobbying is inherently corrupt - the same as it is here in the UK, it's just not as apparent as it is in the US.
That's a reasonable take, but I think that enough things went wrong to the point that the new system that replaces it would have to be different enough that it isn't considered the same system at all.
That is not really an answer to my question.
It seems to me things are turning around ever so slowly to our benefit. It us a constant struggle but worth it. Sounds like you just want to wage war for the sake of it.
Um, no? We were talking about a situation where the people of the US rose up and tore down a corrupt government system and you asked 'then what?'.
You basically replace it with a system with more transparency but effectively the same otherwise.
The problem isn't the system (yet) it's the people who have subverted it.
OK I got that, but how do you change the existing system for more transparency?
That us a great idea, just wondering how.
That's a tough one. Civilian oversight committee's?
I'm sure you could find a lot of ex-service people who would be happy to man the fort.
I mention military because they take oaths of allegiance to the flag & constitution and whilst they might have personal preferences regarding politics, it tends to be less extreme than most (although there are always exceptions). Plus they usual have the necessary security clearances to know stuff and be trusted not to blab it in public unless there is a specific need to in order to protect the constitution.
For example, there are rumours going around that DJT has already secured the backing of the military. He could only have done that if he had convinced them the consitution was under threat. Apparently some have even gone as far as to say they would never accept Biden as president.
How about that for a check & balance? Of course, with all this going on behind the scenes and with me being on the other side of the pond, information is limited and hard to validate reliably.
There are elements of the US system which work really well, it would be daft to throw out the good stuff just because it's susceptible to infiltration and corruption.
IMHO you should keep what works, work out what went wrong, and fix things so that the same things can't go wrong again.
Eliminating money from the equation should be the top goal though, lobbying is inherently corrupt - the same as it is here in the UK, it's just not as apparent as it is in the US.
That's a reasonable take, but I think that enough things went wrong to the point that the new system that replaces it would have to be different enough that it isn't considered the same system at all.