idk about 100%. people on the "left" and center (i use quotations here only because america doesn't really have a left YET) are SOMEWHAT waking up and realizing that sitting things out over some policy disagreements while death cultists are voted into power may not exactly be the right move going forward.
Kinda like “a president only serves a maximum of two terms”?
Just wanna point out that people talking about amendments for Mamdami support need to think about how Trump views amendments for his own purposes. Can’t just change or override them when it’s convenient for your desires.
To me though, that feels like, "They go low, we go high."
it's clear the right has coalesced around far right ideals. They have already decided that the rules don't matter. The left can't just twiddle their thumbs and point to the rules anymore, whining about them being broken.
I feel like the US needs to be frank that they are not in some temporary fugue state as the country is being actively dismantled. It is going to get worse.
This isn't about abortion laws or bathrooms anymore this is about if democracy will literally be upheld.
I'm not saying that, I just think general american populace has this idea that everything will turn out fine, because it always has, as long as we return to some baseline. But things are far more fragile than people like to think. Countries do collapse, laws get rewritten and constitutions get trashed.
Congress is basically doing nothing. Our country is incredibly corrupt yet we're intrinsically taught as if it's not. We dragged ourselves into and through a 40 billion dollar war in the past 6 months on the whim of another state lining political pockets.
Trump, tomorrow, could announce he'd run a third term tomorrow, and his entire base would follow. Many right-wing Americans practically scoff at this idea, but it is very possible if not likely, and they will follow like dogs.
The rule of law is exceedingly malleable and is already being altered. If that left is able to take back control in 2028, if they do not pass sweeping changes to the law, and make executive orders to prevent Trump 2.0, they have failed. If there isn't upheaval we are screwed.
Sorry for the wall lol. In summary, I think that the law against a president having to be born a US citizen is against the American ideals and is small rule to break, but it's not the main thing. The main thing is we can "go high" until the people who have systematically worked to destroy it, collapse everything.
That's more or less how history goes. A singular thing becomes popular enough to inspire change, and an amendment is passed. I don't think this will ever be changed, but that's literally how amendments get passed. It's just popular opinion
That's why I intentionally used the word 'changed' for Mamdani, I thought the implication of an amendment was obvious when it was juxtaposed against 'break' with Trump, but I guess I need to spell it out.
If Trump can be president despite being a felon, I'm willing to entertain the idea we can make an amendment that allows citizens that weren't born in the US to become president, the specifics of it would be important, but I'm not against the idea.
For any sovereign nation, I like the idea of eligibility through birthright, the top of the executive branch is the face of its citizen. It seems strange if it was different.
Maybe the thing about Mamdani is, throughout his legacy of improving the life’s of millions of Americans, the US in a federal level could grant him a special title based over his entire legacy, to grant him eligibility. Maybe not born, but worked so hard and fought so much to change millions of life.
The foundation of only having natural born citizens possible on becoming leader of the executive is good, but if a citizen demonstrate a huge commitment and legacy over that people, maybe a special grant authorized by the other branches of government could be issue, starting from the legislative, to the judicial and signed off within the executive, granting an honorary title of sorts.
6.4% of US citizens were born overseas, if you wanted your presidents to 'reflect the face of your citizens' you're currently behind by almost three foreign born presidents.
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u/Ted_E_Bear 16h ago
Or instead of breaking them, we can change the old ones and just make new ones that make more sense!
I think we have a term for that or something. "Amendment" I think?