>On Mon, 14 Jan 2002, Nathan Newman wrote:
>
>> specific election, but fightng the overall Electoral College is
>>unfortunately
>> a non-starter.
>
>One must be a radical as the reality itself. Right now, we have a Regency
>run by a braindead moron who can't even chew a pretzel and watch TV at the
>same time. Hollywood couldn't make up this stuff if it tried, you know?
>
>Let me be even clearer: to *hell* with the Constitution. It's a deeply
>undemocratic tissue of cockamamie reactionary kludges which no Eastern
>European country in their right mind would tolerate. Put the damn thing in
>a museum where it belongs, and start over with a people's assembly.
Which it would literally take a revolution to do, since the Senate can't be abolished without the unanimous consent of the states - something Montana and Vermont would never consent to.
Doug