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lordsummerisle

(4,651 posts) Tue Jul 31, 2018, 04:45 PM Jul 2018

Here's Why America's Constitution Won't Save Us from Trump

Published by Alternet.org from The Conversation

(Not sure I agree with all of the points, but it's good discussion material...)

A decade ago, as the scale of the disaster in Iraq began to sink in, American historians often compared the United States to ancient Rome. Both seemed to suffer from an imperial disease whose symptoms began with overreach and ended in collapse.

https://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/heres-why-americas-constitution-wont-save-us-trump

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Here's Why America's Constitution Won't Save Us from Trump (Original Post) lordsummerisle Jul 2018 OP

We have elections, and consequences from elections. We sit on our asses beachbum bob Jul 2018 #1

beachbum bob

(10,437 posts)

1. We have elections, and consequences from elections. We sit on our asses

Reply to lordsummerisle (Original post)

Tue Jul 31, 2018, 04:47 PM

Jul 2018

we deserve what happens. Constitution or not

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