Now that Democrats and Republicans agree that the Electoral College should not elect the President..

Thanks for the corrections. But I will say that we are on the verge of losing the concept of a union of states so it may be meaningless in the near future. Who knows? I wasn't responding to the OP. by the way, I responding to another off topic poster.

 

Whatever you say Golem. You clearly think know everything..

 

We have now experienced an insurrection in our Capitol. The House chambers were forceably entered and Representatives hid in fear for their lives.

The Constitution says that any politician who, having previously taken an oath "to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof .... may by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability."

The political right LOVES to fume and rant against "the tyranny of the majority". But here we have exactly that with the majority of the Senate having been complicit in "giving aid and comfort to the enemy" in their defense and even support of this insurrection. These guilty enemies of the Constitution cannot be voted out by two-thirds of their House BECAUSE THEY WOULD HAVE TO VOTE AGAINST THEMSELVES.

So in their great loathing of "the tyranny of the majority", what does the political right do? --they double down and, in violation of their own loathing, they defend and protect the tyranny of the majority of Senate members against lawful action in response to this insurrection.

This kind of complicit behavior by the public is the stuff that enables despots to seize state power.

Their worries about "the tyranny of the majority" be damned. If we survive this assault, we MUST transition to the popular vote, AND we must have several new amendments to the Constitution to correct for this disaster and ensure it cannot happen again. AND a long list of politicians and judges and media personnel need to go to prison for a long, long time.