Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Monday removed every member of a scientific committee that advises the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on how to use vaccines and pledged to replace them with his own picks.
The 17-member Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices had been in a state of flux since Kennedy took over. Its first meeting this year had been delayed when the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services abruptly postponed its February meeting.
It’s actually really frustrating that a plan of similar scope to undo all the damage and fortify our democracy hasn’t been released or at least hinted. It’s clear a huge portion of what were thought to be core components of how our government functions and maintains a balance of power were vulnerable to hostile actors and we need to patch these holes and harden our institutions against future attacks. Democrats need a project 2029 designed to protect against future project 2025 style attempts, assuming they get the chance
I’m waiting for the first candidate to pledge to:
Aggressively indict, prosecute, and imprison the MAGA Nazis for their CRIMES (not their politics).
Criminalize MAGA as a seditious, terrorist, organized crime hate group, and prohibit it’s existence.
Review every elected official, and if they encouraged the Big Lie or the Insurrection in any way, they will be prohibited from holding office under the 14th Amendment, Section 3. Any future candidates who are found to have supported MAGA will also be prohibited from being on the ballot.
Give our Democracy a full rehab, including expanding the Supreme Court, impeaching Clarence Thomas for corruption, ending Gerrymandering, ending the Electoral College, etc.
Re-start the government, and start supervising the state governments of shithole states, starting with Medicare 4 All, Federal control of ALL elections, Federal control of public education, free or low-cost college or vocational tuition at any point in life, cancellation of all college loans, AGGRESSIVE taxation of Sociopathic Oligarchs and Transnational Corporations, Universal Basic Income, Controls and taxation of AI and Robotics that replace human workers, a tax on every stock transaction, etc.
Given time, we could all come up with a lot more.
I would hope we can go even further and rewrite the US constitution. Our constitution feels like a 200+ year old jalopy that’s loosely held together by corpses, cash and a prayer. So many governments in other countries rewrite their constitutions regularly to reflect the changing needs of their people. I know the likelihood is low, but a man can dream.
Yeah good luck with that… Are you suggesting we use the already established method of a Constitutional Convention to decide this new Constitution? If not, then how will the text of it be decided and by whom? If so, then how to you suggest we come to a consensus among all 50 states that will get them all to sign? If not, then how do we determine which states are a part of this new union, just the ones that happen to have non-Republican leadership at the time will able to be a part of it?
Even passing an amendment to the Constitution these days would be impossible, and if we did end up with an entirely new constitution, I’m concerned it would be even worse than what we have now due to the influence of corporations and just the general conservative idiocy of the people here…
Resulting proportionality would fix all of that, and guarantee that a minority party like the GOP never gets total power. But, that’s a bit of a pipe dream.
That is a two edged sword though. You could have a trump admin and right wing states amending it.
IF the Dems can take America back, and purge MAGA and the traitors from the government, we will have a short window that revisiting the Constitution will be possible, without having to worry about traitors having a say in it. Several of my suggestions would require Constitutional approval that doesn’t exist yet.
On the other hand, some of my proposals, like actually enforcing 14A/S3 are already in the Constitution, the Dems just need to play Hard Ball and deploy it. It’s there for a reason, and MAGA is the reason.
It is hard to change it and requires 3/4 of the states to vote for it. With the states divided hard along red/blue lines I don’t see it happening.
https://www.archives.gov/federal-register/constitution
Right, but that’s in the current environment. If you go back to my original comment a couple of levels up, I advocated for forcing out a large number of elected officials, under 14A/S3, which would give the Dems a short window of strong dominance where they could enact a very bold agenda that would put America, and the World, on a new path.
But we have to win this fight first, and we are behind on the scoreboard. Fortune favors the bold, and Dems, and patriotic Indies are going to have to go on aggressive offense in order to stand any chance of winning.
Definitely. There is no point to playing it safe at this point. Go full Bernie.
Gonna need a couple life times to see how all that plays out, but at least your on the right side of history.
I want an investigation into corruption. Illegal contracts, Trump’s family and friends insider trading, etc, etc.
I don’t think we’ll see real change unless we amend the constitution. Right now the process is very difficult which is good and bad.
Yep, go through the record, and investigate every single crime, day by day, hour by hour. Indict them on every single charge, no plea deals, no mercy.