Many of us think that the Constitution protects us from a dictatorship. Unfortunately we are seeing signs of the possibility with Congress almost being in lockstep with the President and the Supreme Court becoming more subservient to the same ideology as the President and Congress.
Kurt Gödel, a mathematician and refugee from Hitler, studied the Constitution thoroughly in preparation for his citizenship. He saw a flaw that his friends cautioned him not to mention it in his hearing.
The examiner sympathetically mentioned that what was happening under Hitler couldn’t happen here. Gödel mentioned that he knew how it could. His friends managed to quiet him down and he became a citizen. See My Brain is Open by Paul Erdös.
How could it happen here? The Constitution can be amended. Could it be amended to give the President a life term, extend to the terms of Congress, abolish free speech,…?
Think of how much of the Constitution has already been corrupted by Supreme Court decisions: Corporations as people, people becoming persons,…
Think of how Republicans are working hard to suppress voting or dilute the effect of any opposition.
All that is needed is for a hard-nosed party to take absolute control of Congress and three-quarters of the states. Boom! There goes our Constitution.
Only you can prevent it. Vote thoughtfully in each and every election, from city council to state house to Congress to President. You are our only bulwark against our loss of freedom.
