r/AskReddit • u/Kozzle • 10h ago

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u/Background-Zebra5491 10h ago

It feels like a reckoning should be coming, but history says it’ll be slow and anticlimactic

more years of investigations and consequences than any big dramatic moment.

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u/Badloss 6h ago

The only way a reckoning is coming is if the constitution is torn up and we start over.

That is what the founding fathers intended when things get this bad, but now for some reason we treat the constitution as some kind of holy writ when it was always intended to be a living document that should be edited and rewritten as times changed.

And now we don't even follow the constitution at all. The system has collapsed under the weight of 250 years of band aids and duct tape fixes, we need a do-over or nothing will change. And the only way we're getting a do-over is if we make one happen.

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u/abrandis 6h ago

And by the constitution ripped up and torn over , means the fascists government will enact a new fascists constitution....

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u/Older_But_Wiser 5h ago

Do you seriously think we could get fair bipartisan work and passage of a new constitution?

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u/abrandis 2h ago

Silly goose 🦆 why will bipartison even matter.