The one thing our Founding Fathers never thought to consider: what if one party seizes control of all three branches of the government? What happens to the concept of checks and balances then? Now that we have some unfortunate insight into such results, it would behoove us to fix this very obvious problem.
And I do, indeed, have a solution. We need to amend the Constitution so that, should it turn out that one party is in charge of the Executive, Legislative and Judicial branches, one of them must be turned over to the other party. I know that makes it unfair to any party not part of the duopoly, but that's a problem we can't solve for now. I mean, I've given a few suggestions over the years, but you know what I mean.
It would be too complex to let this fall upon Congress, so they're safe. It would make the most sense to handle the president, but there's no way in hell anyone is going to go for that. Which leaves the Supreme Court.
Justices aren't supposed to have biases, but that's simply not the reality we're faced with. So yes, we'll have to have stand-by justices to take over when we eject whatever number of the winning party's judges we need to, and then the losing party's judges swoop in to take their place. How do we decide on which ones to axe? It can't be the Chief Justice, but anyone else with seniority has to go. It's insane that we let these people serve for the rest of their lives, so that's where we cut. Give the new blood a chance.
The situation we find ourselves in now is untenable. The system cannot be allowed to continue as it is, or if we're lucky enough to have another election, we might just usher in the next Donald Trump. And then we get to go through all of this again, and won't that be fun?
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