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Some Badly-Needed Reforms REPRINT

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From June 17, 2020

It’s long past time our country adopted certain badly-needed reforms. The beauty of it is now we know how easy it will be to do it. Constitutional amendment? Ha, ha. Actual legislation, with debate, and voting? Nope, we don’t need it.

As George Steppanoplace once said, “Stroke of the pen, law of the land. Cool!”

So, yeah, no more of that creaky old procedural stuff. We’ve got MANDATES! And here are some we really need.

*Raise the voting age to 50.

*Term limits for Congress! House: 24 hours. Senate: 36 hours. Cut it down farther if need be. See how much of our money they can waste if they’re not allowed to perch up on Capitol Hill for years and years.

*Student loan forgiveness–paid for by the colleges and universities who hand out degrees in Tripe Studies and the like. The problem with this was always that it was the defenseless taxpayers who wound up holding the bag, which was flagrantly unjust. But to make the colleges eat the cost of what they’ve done–well, fair is fair.

*Auction off all United Nations facilities on U.S. soil.

*Award a Presidential Medal of Freedom to anyone who refuses to bow down to the Marxist gang, “Black Lives Matter.”

*Still under consideration: arrange for the other 49 states to secede from California.

‘Pervocracy’ (2017)

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This I wrote back in 2017. Now, four years later, we’ve got a “president” who goes around sniffing young girls. And really, it’s the only thing he’s good at.

Pervocracy

What would be so horrible about holding a lottery to decide who’d serve in Congress? I mean, come on, how scared are you of winding up with someone worse than Adam Schiff, Maxine Waters, Nancy Pelosi, Jerry Nadler? Could you even find worse people? Maybe if you had a fully-equipped scientific expedition to… sheesh, I don’t know where! You can’t beat our own 50 states for generating reprobates and elevating them to public office.

We really should try something else.

Pervocracy

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Somebody said, over Thanksgiving dinner, “Well, gee, if you kicked all the perverts and sex fiends out of Congress, you wouldn’t have much left…”

Ooh-ooh! Wait a minute! What a good idea!

I mean, where is it written that our country must be governed by creeps who, when they are not collecting money from lobbyists and betraying the interests of the wider public, spend most of their time chasing girls and women up and down the halls of the Capitol Building, or anywhere else?

Like, could we at least, uh, try being governed by sane and decent people instead of perverts, thieves, liars, idiots, and loons? What could it hurt, just to try it for a little while? We could always go back to a pervocracy, if we felt we really had to.

The American people, by electing Donald Trump, made it clear that they want people in office who will drain the Swamp–that is, Washington, D.C. Drain the Swamp, clean out the corruption.

Only of course the Swamp does not want to be drained. The Swamp resembles the Great Grimpen Mire in The Hound of the Baskervilles: one false step by man, pony, or dog, and it’s death–sucked all the way down to the bottom. I’m getting a sense that Washington does that to the people that we send there.

There’s something to be said for keeping all the crooks in Washington. It’s easier to keep on eye on them. Except nobody does seem to keep an eye on them, and they keep on wasting our money, mismanaging the country, and chasing girls and women up and down the halls. One close look at D.C., and you’ll be convinced John Calvin was right about Total Depravity and Original Sin.

Term limits might help, if you could ever get Congress to vote to put themselves out of business. Don’t hold your breath for that.

If I knew what to do, I’d tell the world; but I don’t. The Swamp will fight to stay alive and groping. The Swamp is rich, strong, and totally unfettered by any moral scruples.

Put our trust in God, and do our best.