08-09-2023, 09:00 AM
(08-08-2023, 01:18 PM)SunsetBengal Wrote: I get that, and you're not even the first one to bring it up. However, how do they get to create a separate "minor infraction" rule for themselves, when citizens are held to the insider trading level of charge and punishment? Do they stop being citizens at the Congressional level?
They don't, much like the POTUS doesn't stop being a citizen and the Supremes don't, either. The big issue we have been seeing for the past decade, though, or at least more people are seeing the truth of it, is that they behave like the laws don't apply to them. Power corrupts and all that, right?
So, what do we do about it? How do we hold these institutions accountable when they have essentially been left be foxes in their respective hen houses? I can tell you what the Constitution says, but the other branches are hesitant to do anything lest it shine the light on them and invoke retaliatory efforts and/or an electoral backlash (because despite how much of a problem this is the majority of the voters see attempts to actually hold people accountable that they agree with as political, see the Trump indictments).
So what do we do when the Constitutional methods are seemingly unavailable because we keep reelecting the same people that are problematic?
"A great democracy has got to be progressive, or it will soon cease to be either great or a democracy..." - TR
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
