Does Anyone Still Doubt What Is Going On In Our Country?

The Reichstag on Fire, February 27, 1933

From the Constitution, Article II, Section 3:

 "...he may, on extraordinary Occasions, convene both Houses, or either of them, and in Case of Disagreement between them, with Respect to the Time of Adjournment, he may adjourn them to such  Time as he shall think proper..."

This section of the Constitution has never, in the entire history of our country, been used.  Now, however, we have a threat by the President of the United States to "adjourn" Congress and govern without them.

It is certainly not without precedent for a nation's leader, frustrated by his inability to wield complete power, to dissolve its legislature:

"After being appointed Chancellor of Germany on 30 January 1933, Hitler asked President von Hindenburg to dissolve the Reichstag. ... Hitler used the decree to have the Communist Party's offices raided and its representatives arrested, effectively eliminating them as a political force...

DECREE DISSOLVES REICHSTAG TODAY; Hindenburg Will Carry Out von Papen Cabinet's Decision to Avoid Certain Adverse Vote. PROGRAM TO BE BROADCAST Ministry Will Rule by Decree Until Elections, Probably in Second Half of July. HITLER OFFERS COALITION But Declares It Must Be Founded Upon Nazi Principles and "Class Hatred Must End."


That was the end of any semblance of democracy in Germany; Hitler's new Nazified Reichstag quickly voted itself out of effective existence by passing the enabling act, which gave Hitler total power, which he wielded until his suicide in 1945, as his country lay in ruins around him; the ultimate result of his rule.


Hitler had to rely on this suspicious fire to muster the momentum to get away with destroying representative government in Germany; Trump may very well think that the coronavirus pandemic gives him the same opening to destroy it here in the United States.  And remember that this threat came only one day after he asserted in public that he had the right to do anything he wanted to do, regardless of what the law says.

It surpasses the imagination of any decent person to believe that the Senate could accept this man's presence in the White House.  In any kind of decent country, he would be removed from office and imprisoned immediately.  But the United States is no longer a decent country, and anyone who denies that fact is a liar.

Comments

One Fly said…
It is not difficult to comprehend these issues. A grade schooler could.
April 16, 2020 at 6:01 AM
Green Eagle said…
But not, apparently, a Republican.
April 17, 2020 at 1:47 PM
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