re: #52 Lupin

We’ll have to see what happens.

When Nixon went down for the Watergate Hotel break-in at the Democratic National Committee headquarters, it took two years before the GOP convinced him to resign his post.

We didn’t have twenty-four/seven media, Twitter, Facebook, blogs, and such back then.

With the current allegations (collusion with Russia and corruption), the FBI and other agencies still need to put together a bullet-proof case, just as they were with Richard Nixon. Even though the media runs continuously, criminal investigations still move at the same pace.

I’m not ready to throw in the towel yet; there have been serious corruption scandals and even a civil war that did not bring down the USA.

Perhaps there are holes in the US Constitution and Federal statutes: No set of laws can ever be perfect (which is why the Constitution has an amendment mechanism, means for setting aside incompetent officials, or removing incompetent or criminal officials from office).

The Constitution was designed to be a slow, laborious process, so a majority could not use the law to punish the minority simply for being the minority. (That was written in as a response to the way the United Kingdom’s parliament worked, where the majority party would frequently accuse the minority party of treason.)

Is their room for improvement? Most certainly so. Will the government’s agencies charged with carrying out investigations (and prosecutions if warranted) do their jobs? We’ll have to see, and call out corruption or malfeasance as citizens when we see it.

Ultimately, the Constitution is set up for governance by the people. It is the people that needs to hold politicians to account when they violate the law or are corrupt.