Let’s Have a Public Debate Now, For and Against Replacing Trump by Pence

October 17th, 2017

Awake Goy

Let’s Have a Public Debate Now, For and Against Replacing Trump by Pence

By Eric Zuesse.
washingtonsblog.com

Eric Zuesse

Here is an argument for replacing Trump by Pence.

Here is an argument against replacing Trump by Pence.

The public needs now to become engaged in this debate, because otherwise the only people who will be participating at all in this incredibly important decision as to whether to replace Trump by Pence, will be the members of the Congress and of the Administration, neither of which body is trusted by most Americans.

Its now, or never, for this issue to become debated by the public. That public debate has started, with those two articles. It will either be joined now by the public-at-large, or else the existing, and widely distrusted, power-structure will make the decision with no real public participation in it. Is that the way a democracy’ would function? Is it the way a democracy would function? Would the public, in a democracy, keep quiet while elected and unelected officials of a distrusted federal government make the decision as to whether the public needs to be even consulted about this matter, and whether a new U.S. Presidential election should be held as soon as is reasonably possible in order to determine whether the existing occupant of the White House (Donald Trump) shall serve out his elected term, or whether instead his Vice President (Mike Pence) shall fill out that term and well wait until 2020 before a newly chosen nominee of his Party, or else some nominee of some other political party will be the next occupant?

What would a real democracy do, in such a situation? Would it simply let the distrusted Government replace Donald Trump by Mike Pence and with no input from the public? Why? Would Mike Pence be a better President than Donald Trump is? Or worse? Thats what now needs to be debated amongst the public, and not ONLY amongst the members of the Congress and of the Trump Administration (as now is being done). If the public debate doesnt start now, then the solution will be an imposed one, by a government that the public overwhelmingly do not trust. If the public care so little as to passively allow that to happen, then they dont care about democracy at all because that wouldnt BE democracy.

Investigative historian Eric Zuesse is the author, most recently, of Theyre Not Even Close: The Democratic vs. Republican Economic Records, 1910-2010, and of CHRISTS VENTRILOQUISTS: The Event that Created Christianity.