Oh HELL NAW!

 So, some republican congressman has proposed a resolution to allow Trump to run for a third term. It's highly likely that this will never pass, as it would require a constitutional amendment like most stuff the trump administration is proposing it seems, but still, guys? I gotta say this. This is how it starts. When Russia got Putin in, he ran for 8 years, did his job, and then ran for prime minister while his puppet Dmitri Medvedev ran for president. Then Putin's party amended the constitution, and allowed Putin to run again. Then they crushed all opposition and started rigging the elections there. This is how you break democracy. You start with a functioning democracy, and then you make weird power grabs like this. You dont take away the democracy altogether, but you erode the mechanisms of it to render it inert. Most dictatorships are actually democracies on paper that aren't. The US is already, by my estimation, a very flawed democracy and functionally an oligarchy, we only got 2 parties, they've gamed the system to centralize power in those two parties, and they crush the opposition. But if we let trump do the stuff that he wants to do, we might trend toward a one party state, where Trump and the republicans control everything, elections are a sham, and then Trump is dictator for life, followed by another Trumpian figure (possibly a son?) who picks of the reins and continues the movement. This is scary. 

With all of that said, the democrats gotta use all of their power to push back here. Thankfully we have a robust system of checks and balances where for better or for worse, it would take vast supermajorities to make this a reality, and if democrats hard oppose them, they can beat them. But yeah. This is why I keep saying we gotta resist trump and show him no quarter. Shut down and obstruct as much as possible. You know, just like they do to us when we're in power. We cant let this madman succeed in remaking the country in his image. If he has a legitimately good idea once in a while, eh, maybe think about jumping on board, as I said, I'm not hard opposed to EVERYTHING this guy proposes. But the vast majority of it? Yeah. And anything that will remake the country into something we dont want it to become? Yeah. 

Democrats, do your jobs, shut this crap down. Dont let them gain ANY steam here. This is the do or die moment for America, "the resistance" needs to be resisting. Thankfully a measure like this should be extremely easy to defeat, but yeah. Again, we can't give trump ANY room here. I've said it for a while, this dude wants to be putin. Don't let him be. We contained him last time, we gotta contain him this time.