He. Tried. To. Kill. You.

    • TheCraiggers@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      1 year ago

      If this actually works, the next step will be abolishing the two-term limit. “Leave it to the will of the people to decide if they want a dictatorship.”

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      Well, basically, this is the gist of “a republic, if you can keep it”. At the end of the day, my boy Montesquieu’s words hang over all government like a spectre. Governments rule only by the consent of the governed. If everyone woke up tomorrow and decided we wanted Lenin’s mummified goatee to be president, constitution be damned, Biden be damned, it’d be the president.

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      There’s a good case to be made that the 35 year old restriction is dumb and should be amended out.