Should Politicians Be Removed From Office?

[RockyStar]

Should Politicians who trash America, The American Flag, The Declaration of Independence be removed from their position?

[Monkey Man]

The heart says yes, but the head says no for me at least, brother.

There's that thing called FoS.

If they wanna trash what peeps hold dear, logic suggests they'd pay the price at the ballot box. Of course their repeated trashing has the effect of attracting folks to their cause as much, if not more so, as it repels voters, especially these days.

[administrator]

Every politician who gets into office should have a scorecard based on a list of campaign promises.

After a certain amount of time has passed, they should be judged via scorecard whether or not they kept those promises.

Those who do poorly get thrown out. Those who do well get to keep their position.

As far as the question, those politicians who besmirch America, the Flag, the ideals behind the DoI, and especially the Constitution, should have their asses handed to them by The People and kicked right the fuck out of the country.

Why?

Because you cannot be for America and at the same time against America.

[harddriver]

The Founding Fathers said it best...

In Congress, July 4, 1776

The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America, When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.--Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.

[RockyStar]

Where's that Like button?

[Monkey Man]

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.