We Should Not Elect ANYBODY President of the United States

A POTUS is, according to the U.S. Constitution, the enforcer of laws made by politicians sitting in Washington, D.C. Read why this is NOT genuine democracy.

Many good people today mistakenly accept the idea that there should be a President of the United States with the powers of that office spelled out in the United States Constitution. Such people only disagree with each other about how to elect the president and whom we should elect to that office.

I beg to disagree. Here’s why.

The United States Constitution prohibits genuine democracy by giving a president authority to enforce laws on all 300+ million of us in the United States, laws written exclusively by 535 individuals meeting in Washington, D.C. I discuss how horribly anti-democratic this is in my earlier Substack post titled, “Dear 300 Million Good People: You Have NO Moral Obligation to Obey Bad Laws Written by 535 U.S. Congress Critters Beholden to the Rich.” In that post I discuss how our acceptance of such an anti-democratic arrangement is an open door for oppressors, such as our ruling billionaire plutocracy, to dominate and oppress all 300+ million of us simply by gaining control of most of the 535 individuals meeting in Washington, D.C., which is not at all hard to do when one has billions of dollars with which to do it.

Electing a good person president does not solve the key structural problem. A single individual is, obviously, a sitting duck for the CIA to eliminate.

In order to have a genuine democracy we need hundreds of millions of people having a shared vision of what a genuine democracy actually is, and then doing what it takes to get it. I describe its basic features here.

In a genuine democracy the people who value no-rich-and-no-poor equality and mutual aid and fairness and truth, and only they, have the real say in society and hence in the government. Such people are the vast majority in most communities. I call such people egalitarians whether they have ever heard that word or not. The way they have the real say is by not being obliged to obey any laws other than those democratically written by themselves (if they wish) and fellow egalitarians in a body (I call it an assembly) that they have the right and the practical opportunity to join and participate in, with equal status with its other members, whenever they wish.

How can we get genuine democracy?

To get genuine democracy requires removing the rich from power, because as long as the rich are in power they will use force or its credible threat to prevent genuine democracy from existing.

We CAN remove the rich from power, despite the proverbial 82nd Airborne Division, by the method I describe here.

In order to implement this method, we need to build a massive egalitarian revolutionary movement. Read here how YOU can help do that.