General Discussion

And also where new guard rails need to be created. I could come up with dozens of examples. For example, tax returns: Candidates for president should be REQUIRED by the FEC to fully release their tax returns when they first declare their candidacy. Money in politics: I would love for there to be a constitutional amendment that declares: Article 1: Corporations and all other artificial entities are not persons. Article 2: Money is not speech. Gerrymandering: Let's have a constitutional amendment that states: Article 1: All political districts shall be drawn using straight north-south or east-west lines, or already-existing city, county or state borders. Article 2: The purpose of this amendment is to prevent the practice known as gerrymandering, or drawing district lines in such a way as to give an advantage to one political party or faction over another. Pardons: There needs to be a three-member presidential pardons board. One of the three members of that board is the current president. The other two members are appointees of the past two presidential administrations, with at least one of them being a member of the current president's opposition party. I could come up with (as Stephanie Miller might say) eleventy-million new guard rails like these. The next time the Democrats get in control, we need to start working vigorously and determinedly on them.

-- Ron