The means we have to take back our constitutional democracy.

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The founders left us with just a few possible means to make a change in government between elections which were designed to be the free exercise of the will of the people. They didn't really account for the fact that the level of trust and integrigy that was required for the electorate to make good decisions when it came to choosing the nation's political leadership would ever be undermined by enough ignorance and corruption to make a bad choice.

But that's what's happened.

The place where such change is most difficult to make is the place where, in our present situation, it is needed the most. The Supreme Court is at the root of the problem. There's been enough bribe money and influence distrubuted to get enough justices, those who were appointed because they showed some kind of moral or ethical weakness, or a lack of integrity and trustworthiness, to rule in favor of the ability of billionaires and billion-dollar profiteering corporations to corrupt the electoral process by taking all of the restrictions off campaign contribution amounts. The ruling, called the "Citizens United" case, has made it possible for members of the House and Senate, members of the Supreme Court, and just about anyone else in electoral politics, to be bought by big money without accountability.

Frankly, I don't have to prove any specific claims here. It's so visible, the evidence is in what these justices have done, and what the politicians who were elected by big money are doing in exchange for the sale of their integrity and character, that their words and deeds are full of evidence of the way they're poisoning our country.

We, the people, are left with a very narrow, virtually impossible Constitutional way to make the kind of changes in government that are necessary to preserve constitutional democracy in America now. What we actually have at our disposal is the pathway to impeachment and removal from office, of six incompetent Supreme Court justices along with a President, Vice-President, House Speaker and President Pro-Tempore of the Senate. And we're pretty convinced, given the partisan alignment of Congress, and the unwillingness of the majority party to act with integrity and honesty, that this is an impossible pathway.

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1. Is today's shooting a sign of growing frustration over the seeming ineffectiveness of actions taken to try and put a

stop to the dismantling of our Democracy?

Or will it be something entirely different when the shooter is caught and identified. The conspiracy theories are already making the rounds of social media.

Some things to consider. This happened in an unlikely place, in Utah, but also in the part of Utah where the Mormon population is at its highest percentages. It's a state where gun control laws are among the most lax in the country.