Could Congress replace Trump with Romney/Kasich?

OK, it sounds crazy, but things have gone south to an incredible degree in DC, and the more plausible outcomes all look really awful.

Not that things were great before Trump's election either.  Folks who say there are no conspiracies active in DC either haven't been here or don't have open eyes. (Still, I am reminded of the CNN reporters who covered the women's march Saturday, and did not comment on the mass effect of bathrooms being locked up and the unusual resulting flows of people. I suppose there are things no one talks about to the media.) No matter what other mistakes Trump made during the election, he seemed to make two key commitments: (1) NOT to start a war with Russia and Iran, as "the swamp" clearly wanted to force on us; and (2)  to drain the swamp. But he has not been very effective with (1), and demonstrated how lack of situational awareness can make a person worse than nothing regarding (2). Though I voted for Hilary Clinton myself, I did so with a lack of energy and enthusiasm because she too lacked enough situational awareness, and would probably be in even DEEPER trouble than Trump at this time if she had been elected. The issues (1) and (2), in the noosphere surrounding US voters, rammed through Trump. (Yes, folks, predictive models do require adequate inputs on key variables. No, I don't need a lesson on first grade predictive analytics. I refrain from teaching the advanced classes, because I know who is ready to misuse it immediately and thoughtlessly.)

Carl Icahn explained his support for Trump on TV in 2016: "We need a new Teddy Roosevelt." We certainly do.

Many have asked: will Trump simply become the new Queen of England, utterly emasculated, an obedient lap dog of the swamp? He mainly seems to be just standing by, stupified and distracted by events in his own bathroom (CNN), even as the would-be new Great Caliph (Erdogan) not only invades Syria but murders the allies who stopped the last great pretender.

Or will the Russia hysteria not only get rid of him, but return to the stupid war agenda of the defense lobbyists in the swamp (not civil servants but the kind of lobbyists accurately depicted in the book Atlas Shrugged, the real swamp, who have direct wires into almost all federal agencies, the real "secret societies" of hired hands well-known to top DOD folks)?

Is there any hope at all for this country, or are we on an iron path to repeating what Byzantium experienced, something I have learned a lot about through time?

OK, let's go back to Teddy Roosevelt. There was once such a thing as an honest government movement, which was more than just a tea party but tapped into the honest noosphere part which tea party also INITIALLY tapped into. My (orphan) mother's guardian, Mary McFadden, may have done more to safeguard this republic than I ever have, because of the work she did with the Pennsylvania Economy League... AND what it connected to and led to.

No impeachment of Trump is going to replace him with Hillary Clinton, and Pence has supported chaos and lies and demonstrated even less awareness than Trump of what really goes on in DC. So in that case, Romney might well be the best hope. Not Romney/Ryan; Ryan is not a healing figure for the nation, and civil strife is a growing risk at multiple levels. (With enough civil strife, we all lose, no matter who seems to win. I feel sad as I say that, as 23andme says that Ryan is a distant cousin, at least if his Irish forbears were in the wave of the 1600's.) But Romney/Kasich might just do it.

But is it even possible? Well, if ever there was a time when folks might reconsider amending our constitution to be more like Germany's, this might be it. Brilliant US political scientists and military leaders helped Germany write a new Constitution after WWII, specifically engineered to cope with extreme political polarization. Could it be that this is our time now? 


Or then again... will the constitution erode further, and result in a 2020 election, say, between Schwartzenegger and Hillary Clinton? (Don't underestimate the noospheric energy which might support Schwartzenegger.) It's funny, because the first part of the movie Terminator III looks exactly like that. The movie is horrible... but great in depicting what to avoid. Or at least part of what to avoid. There is also more truth than you might think in the movie Wall-E.

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In truth, yesterday I went with Luda to see "The Last Jedi," in fantastic IMAX 3D at the national air and space museum. (Unlike Saturday, we walked to metro and took metro to get there.) There were about 12 of us at the 6PM showing. Some parts make no sense to me, but I really do worry about what could happen to The Republic here, and I am sad about the naive belief that any kind of emperor could know enough personally to prevent degeneration and collapse of human life itself. Trump has far less power than that, but is already a great object lesson in delusions about what a Great Leader can do without a responsive social structure as well. There are also "libertarians" who effectively stand for nothing but absolute unlimited dictatorship by forces outside the legal government as such even less responsive and informed -- i.e. "the swamp".