It is time to consider the radical concept of ending the office of the presidency. It is time to start this debate. It has become abundantly clear, the office itself has become ineffective and more like some cultural idol worship. Watching whoever holds the office is more like following some reality show then it is following anything of substance.

The office holder has almost no power and is a prisoner of corporate lobbyists. The truth is nothing really gets done. Even with all the passion that a candidate feels trying to get the job, as soon as they arrive and are embedded into the office, they become a shadow of their own ideals.

What does the president really do anyway? Hundreds of millions of people get involved, wait in line and vote, but in the end, the office it self has crushing limits. We never see what we voted for come to fruition though that office. It has evolved into some puppet show in which the office holder becomes a lightning rod, but never really gets to be evolved in the process of governing. The office holder has become a rubber stamp where only his or her signature is needed in the end to sign off on the real power.

The real power in America governing apparatus is the Senate. So why not eliminate the office of the presidency and let us vote nationally on our senators and create a small group within that answers to the people and let that body do the governing? The executive branch can execute the laws, but exists without the office of the presidency.

Let’s go back to the days of Rome and let the Senate run the nation. Hell, they do it anyway, why not make it official? The presidency has evolved into a cartoon in a cartoon graveyard. It is all for show. We concentrate on whether the office holders wear boxers or briefs. We focus in on their pets like it is a news story. The president flies around the world shaking hands, but never really getting anything done. There was a time when we needed this position in government, but that time has passed and this job is truly without merit now.

Let the Senate run the government like Rome. Let the Senate speak for the people. The President is our modern day version of Caesar and just like the lessons mankind learned in the Roman Empire days, we should learn from the past and apply it to now. The presidency and its office has become the biggest and most expensive puppet show in the history of mankind. It is time to end the notion that we need it. It is time to end the nonsense and the spurious self-belief that we need a president in the twenty-first century. Let the debate begin.

C. Rich

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