If I Ran: I would be elected president in 2020

By Jim DesRocher

Being concerned about the rapid, intentional dismantling of the United States democracy I decided to possibly run for president in 2020 to see if I could save our democracy.

• Language: English
• Publisher: BookBaby
• Release date: Jan 24, 2020
• ISBN: 9781543998474

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Contents

Introduction

Opportunity

Life, Truth, and Politics

Identifying the Problem

The Test of Patriotism

What I See, Why I Am Afraid.

The 2020 Elections

My Long Time Thoughts

Hints of a Civil War

Upgrading the Legislative Bodies.

The Changes needed for a Better Democracy.

Securing Real Equal Representation.

Setting up the new Equally Balanced Legislative Bodies.

Breaking Ties in Equally Divided Legislative Bodies.

Qualifying to become a Candidate

A New Equally Representative Voting Method.

How Voters would Vote.

Benefits of the New Voting System

Transitioning to a New Legislative System.

Establishing Taxpayer-Funded Campaigns.

Eliminating Political Primaries.

Establishing Campaign Time Limits.

Placing our Presidential and Gubernatorial Candidates on Ballots.

Placing Candidates for Governor on a ballot.

One Bill, One Vote.

Eliminating Special Interests Lobbying.

Upgrading Our Politically Partisan Supreme Court.

Ensuring Every U.S. Citizen’s Right to Vote without Prejudice.

Establishing Mandatory Voting.

Eliminating the Electoral College.

Holding the Media Accountable for the Truth.

Adopting a National Referendum Process.

Adopting the 28th Amendment.

Government Ownership.

Setting a Clear Direction for our Country

Finding a Savior

Private Political Parties

Am I Calling for a Peaceful Social Revolution? You Decide.

My Campaign, if I Ran.

One More Time

Setting Bad Precedents

Challenging Private Political Parties.

Solving Our Countries Urgent Immigration Problem.

Addressing Guns, with a Plan.

A Federal Gun Owner’s Responsibility Law.

Will I really Run for President?

Introduction

This is a could-be true story about solving a critical problem regarding the intentional, systematic dismantling of our democracy. This story explains why I, an old concerned retiree, is now contemplating the crazy idea of running for president in 2020. I would run for president only because I am positive that I would win the 2020 presidential election if given a chance. I would not be a typical presidential candidate because my campaign would be about making some necessary and critical structural and procedure changes to our outdated and abused federal and state legislative bodies. My campaign would also be about making some essential changes to our voting procedures to align with the suggested changes to our legislative bodies. No candidate running for president has ever dared to suggest making changes to our legislative bodies. However, desperate times call for drastic measures. The changes to our legislative bodies I would be suggesting were explicitly designed to clean up the corruption and the undemocratic, unpatriotic extreme partisanship within our government that’s necessary to save our democracy. I believe that if we, the American people, do not do something soon to take back control of our legislative bodies, we will have no chance of ever saving our democracy as we know it today. I believe that we, the American people, have now reached the crossroads of our democratic experiment. We have arrived at the time when we must decide to either save and preserve our self-rule system of representative democracy or silently yield it to some unknown form of authoritarian dictatorship, as mentioned by our founding fathers. If I ran for president, I would ask the American people to take a good look at how the government they own and pay for functions and ask if they are happy with what they see. Can the American people do better, and do they deserve better?

As a presidential candidate, I would ask the American people to seriously consider what an unknown, old, non-politician, patriotic American citizen like me has to offer that no other presidential candidate can. As a candidate, I would like the opportunity to show the American people that other patriotic people outside of the tightly held political inner circle could become outstanding presidents. I believe that saving our democracy must carry a much higher level of concern and importance than simply defeating Trump or expanding the political powers of the political parties in 2020. Therefore, my campaign for president would inject a totally new and critical element into the 2020 presidential elections. I will leave it up to the readers to determine if my save our democracy themed campaign for president would be the answer needed to saving our dying democracy.

It has become apparent to me that someone needs to bring some real serious attention to the fact that we, the American people, are rapidly losing our democracy. The decline of our democracy is due directly to the failures or refusal of many of our extremely partisan elected officeholders to honor and uphold their sworn oath of office that requires them to always protect, defend, and preserve our constitution, thus our democracy. The American people have a severe problem with the present 2020 presidential campaigns, primarily because the fate of our dying democracy has not yet been identified, debated, or discussed publicly as being the most crucial problem that our country has faced in its short history. Other things such as getting elected or reelected, enhancing the power of our private, non-governmental political parties, serving the whims of wealthy donors, or validating and defending political corruption have become more important for our elected officials than doing what is constitutionally required to protect and preserve our democracy. I am completely baffled by the fact that not one of the candidates running for president in 2020 has offered any practical, acceptable, or achievable solutions intended to save our dying democracy.

The only reason I would even consider running for president would be to bring some serious attention to our dying democracy problem. For me, there would be no sense of running for president if I could not offer the practical, acceptable, and would be constitutionally-approved solutions necessary to Save our Democracy. The solutions I would be proposing to save our democracy if I run would be the result of the necessity for some new, innovative, and out-of-the-box thinking specifically designed to Save and Enhance our Constitutional Democracy. I knew, as an ordinary citizen, that I could not run for president by merely using the standard business as a usual campaign model like all the other political party candidates must follow.

Clearly, that business as usual approach within our political system is killing our democracy. So, my campaign for president would be somewhat unconventional due to the fact I believe we, as Americans, need to elevate our social and political thinking and actions to a higher level where saving our dying democracy becomes every American’s primary concern. The real solutions for saving our democracy that I would be proposing if I ran are new, innovative, never discussed publicly before, and were specifically designed to meet the requirements of our constitution. Learning about these new, innovative democracy saving changes I would be proposing will require an open-minded, nonpartisan, country first, and patriotic mindset to fully understand.

Naturally, we would first need to identify where the real problems exist within our government and deal with them accordingly. Our legislative bodies, the federal and state Senates and Houses of Representatives are the primary actors within our political system because nothing major happens without their approval. Therefore, we must assume that our private political party controlled legislative bodies are the primary blame for the decline of our democracy. If I did run for president, I would propose that we, the American people, make some very necessary and beneficial structural and procedure changes to our federal and state legislative bodies and voting system. Making my proposed legislative body changes would remove all forms of outside money influence from our political system, would naturalize the political power of our political parties, would end the contentious partisan political divide in our government and country, while also placing full control of our legislative bodies back in the hands of the American people.

After much research and discussion, I feel the changes to our legislative bodies and voting system I would be proposing will be a constitutionally required and approved way for the American people to take back control of their legislative bodies; thus, government from our present big money influenced private, non-governmental political parties. Let’s face it, merely attempting to win elections by reshuffling the same old worn-out political party politicians like usual every couple of years is no longer the answer to saving our dying democracy. I say this because as long as our present private political party controlled legislative bodies remain unchanged and in the hands of the big money brokers, nothing will change, and our democracy will continue to decline.

It should be clear that no matter if Trump resigns, is impeached, or reelected, or if a Democrat is elected president in 2020, or if the Democrats win the Presidency and the Senate and House of Representatives in 2020 we will not have addressed nor fixed the real problem of the destructive, extreme political party partisanship that exists within our legislative bodies. That extreme political party partisanship has and is still causing the democracy destroying chaos that our government is in today. Not overhauling our partisan driven legislative bodies will ensure that our legislative bodies will continue to operate as usual until we no longer live in a democracy. Even if the Democrats sweep the 2020 elections, that anti-democracy element that exists within the Republican Party will continue working relentlessly to undermine our democracy. All of the current chaos within our government has clearly demonstrated that there are way too many elected officeholders and others, primarily Republicans, that are willing to sell out their constitutional democracy to expand their partisan political party powers. Those political party powers are needed to establish full control of our legislative bodies, thus our government.

The primary reason for upgrading our legislative bodies and our voting system is to ensure that no big money funded private political party would ever have the political power to own and control our legislative bodies in the future. When one person, presently the extremely partisan Mitch McConnell, or any other leader of our Senate, can control everything that happens within our present legislative body system, our government cannot function as a proper self-rule representative democracy. Obviously, taking control of our legislative bodies is the same as or equal to taking control of our entire government. Our legislative bodies are charged with overseeing the supposed nonpartisan checks and balances responsibilities, designed to ensure that no branch of our government becomes too politically powerful, including our legislative bodies. Yet, today, we see no cooperative efforts by our elected officials within the legislative bodies to carry out their constitutionally required checks and balances responsibilities.

What many of our officeholders no longer have is the courage, will-power, and patriotic sense of responsibility to willingly regulate the legislative, political power of big money funded and controlled, non-governmental private political parties. Our big money funded private political parties now control all votes in our legislative bodies, along with having the power to determine what issues or legislation gets introduced, discussed, and voted on or not voted on in our legislative bodies. The majority will and needs of the American people are no longer considered essential elements in the decision-making process within our private political party run legislative bodies.

The big money power brokers and the political parties they control have become the sole determiners of what laws are enforced and what legislation can or cannot reach the floors of our legislative bodies. Our self-rule representative democracy was never intended to represent only the policies of big money owned private political parties. Saving our democracy is contingent upon the American people taking back control of the legislative bodies they own and are constitutionally responsible for. It is imperative that we, American people, rebuild our legislative bodies in a way that never allows for the wealthy or any other special interests entity to gain ownership control of our private political parties, thus our legislative bodies and government. We, the American people, need to face the reality that if we do not fix our legislative bodies that we own, we will be forever be governed by the self-serving, wealthy ruling class. The changes to our legislative bodies and voting system that I would be proposing if I ran for president would solve our legislative body problems by making it meaningless or non-beneficial for the wealthy or anyone else to own and control private political parties. The changes that I would be proposing if I ran for president would be all about establishing a solid foundation for a new democracy that is once again a democracy by the people, of the people, and for the people.

Using an analogy, let’s view our present government as an old broken-down bus that’s sputtering along, trying to squeeze out one more mile before it dies. The critical question is, what happens when that bus stops running? The political party sponsored candidates running for president in 2020 are merely all bus drivers believing that they can continue driving that broken-down old bus without offering any plan to fix the bus before it breaks down for good. The problem I see is, we do not need more bus drivers running for president; we need a mechanic-like presidential candidate who knows exactly how to fix that bus and keep it running smoothly well into the future. As a presidential candidate, I would be the mechanic candidate that would be proposing the sure-fire ways to rebuild that old bus and keep it running smoothly in a constitutionally-guided, representative democratic way. That analogy shows the difference between my mechanic like save our democracy presidential candidacy and all of the other political party bus driver candidates who want