When this is all over and there's some return to normalcy, there are things that need to be done.
1. The Republican Party needs to die. A party that's eagerly embraced racism, sexism, fascism, knownothingism and treason isn't fit to run a 7-11, let a country.
2. The Electoral College has to go. People in small or sparsely populated states may be splendid folks, but not so splendid they deserve more political power than people in big, heavily populated states.
3. It should be made impossible to play games of chicken with government funding or the debt ceiling.
4. The filibuster is nearly dead already. Finish it off.
5. The Supreme Court needs to be turned back into a deliberative body instead of a 9-member legislature like it's becoming. I don't even know how to make that happen.
6. Commercial speech needs to be more regulated. Again, I'm not sure how, but I don't see democracy thriving where deep-pockets companies can turn firehoses of mendacity on any target at will.
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... but we need these things codified as laws. We can no longer assume that stuff is gonna happen just because it should happen. Even if the Republican Party really does go away, there will still be rightwingers in our midst. There will still be people with way too much money and who'll be willing to spend it to get what they want.
In the last couple of years I've learned that the real problem with the Republican Party is the Libertarians. If we could somehow get rid of them, everything else would fall into place eventually.
Would help tho.
