If we were going to try Elected Officials for Treason

simply for being piss-poor Americans and all around assholes and supporting the wrong kind of legislation, there is another class of persons who should face the same gallows...

Everyone who voted for them.

I hate to sound blood-thirsty, but Treason is a capital offense, after all. And considering the stakes, my proposal here is really rather "modest".

If Bush, Cheney Gohmert, Boehner, Cantor, McConnell, etc. were guilty of the big T, treason, then having cast a ballot for them, particularly for a term after the first term, was surely an act in furtherance of a treasonous conspiracy.

I don't know exactly how we would march about half of American voters up those steps to take "the big drop" but it wouldn't make any sense not to.

(One way to examine an idea is to take it seriously. If our leaders are traitors then those who facilitated their crimes, usually quite knowingly, really do have a comparable level of liability, right?)

Our secret ballot does muddy the "beyond a reasonable doubt" standard, so summary execution of a random selection of whatever percentage of registered voters in a district voted for the bad men might have to suffice. Maybe, in the interests of a more exact justice, we could follow the exit polls... X% of white men, X% of people over 65, etc..

Such collective punishments are frowned on these days, but one must break a few eggs to make an omelet.

I am somewhat concerned, however, in my Swift-ian way, about the effect of this wholesale depopulation of America on real estate valuation.