Lyle Northey (Silent/Boomer)

  New look at how the Constitution was violated by Mr. Trump. There is a clause that forbids attempting to retain power after being voted out of office. That is one way that he should be removed from the ballot. He has promised to pardon all those that have been tried and convicted for their part of the Jan 6 rebellion to include those convicted of treason. Based on the clause of giving aid and comfort to the enemies of the United States that is another reason to remove him from the ballot. He has not done it, but intends to do it.

  All those currently in Congress that are still pushing the stolen election theory need to be removed from public office. Anyone that has been involved and jailed for actions during that activity should be barred from seeking office.

  Additionally we need to go back and start rewriting laws that provide voting rights. Money does not talk in a natural sense. Corporations are not persons and therefore should not be allowed to influence elections. Many very capable people never get the opportunity to contribute to the political process because they are not rich. As much as the rich don’t want to hear it, the nation does not belong to them alone.

  Many of the guidelines that are set forth in the Constitution have been changed for reasons known only to those that changed them, or no good reason at all. We need to re-establish the basics such as separation of church and state. 

  You can easily call politics a folly because in so many ways it is. The same may be said of religion whether the religious appreciate the remark or not. The truth is that you can not mix 2 frivolous entities together and end up with anything but an absolute chaotic mess. Don’t believe it, take a look at every nation that has religion sitting side saddle with their politics. Most are a mess because not everyone in the nation may be of the faith that runs the nation and they can not seem to govern and minister without conflict as will be the case here when the righteous right gets to run things the way they want to.

  We know what is best for everyone even if you do not agree. To prove the point we will give you the opportunity to denounce your current faith and accept ours and then we will put you to death anyway as we really don’t believe you have changed. Sound familiar? The Catholics used this once and would probably do it again if they thought they could get away with it, but many different faiths have the same attitude. 

  This is one of the reasons that our Constitution was not written as a secular document, the founders did not want it tied to a particular faith for fear of strangulation of the concept of freedom. Most of the founders were Masons and for better or worse their attitude was that they hoped you believed in a higher being than yourself but they did not really care what that being was called, God, Allah, or what you will. The push to put everything under the banner of Christianity purposely isolates us from those that hold other beliefs. 

  Our nation is supposed to be homogeneous, not purely one or the other. Welcome to all and favoritism to no one is where we need to be not boxed into a corner of our own stupor.