The requirements for passing a constitutional amendment via Article V are that three Quarters of the state legislatures have to pass it, and that's not going to happen with partisan or special interest agendas. If we pass anything at all it would have to be simple, exactly worded, and the bare minimum to separate business and legislation with the understanding that that will not fix everything. It will take a long time to hash out wording in referendum, as it should since this is the fate of our country we'd be shaping.
But this is no passing financial instability. Public servants are suppressing the First Amendment, creating a police state to continue not fixing the system they don't know how to admit is broken, and have no training or practice in achieving non-partisan goals have no hope of being able to fix themselves. The corporate back-stabbity hypercompetitive go-team-us attitude that belongs to Washington and Wall Street is partially caused by the thing we must fix, and they've been drinking the Kool-Aid too long to remember how to play fair. They think that the system is supposed to be like this. They can't see it at all.
How are they supposed to decide what to do about the Fed if the gridlock is so bad that nothing gets done? How are we going to deal with the Robot Economy if there is no government intervention into the market? How do we fix institutional problems inside a system that being part of makes you blind to if we can't impose rules from outside?
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branchandroot
Re: Uh...
Date: 2011-11-28 07:28 am (UTC)But this is no passing financial instability. Public servants are suppressing the First Amendment, creating a police state to continue not fixing the system they don't know how to admit is broken, and have no training or practice in achieving non-partisan goals have no hope of being able to fix themselves. The corporate back-stabbity hypercompetitive go-team-us attitude that belongs to Washington and Wall Street is partially caused by the thing we must fix, and they've been drinking the Kool-Aid too long to remember how to play fair. They think that the system is supposed to be like this. They can't see it at all.
How are they supposed to decide what to do about the Fed if the gridlock is so bad that nothing gets done? How are we going to deal with the Robot Economy if there is no government intervention into the market? How do we fix institutional problems inside a system that being part of makes you blind to if we can't impose rules from outside?