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 than following anything of substance. We have a man with onset dementia, if not full-blown dementia, who is in the office now, and too many people don’t seem to care. It is not the first time, in the last two years of the Reagan Presidency, the man had Alzheimer’s disease. So, why have the office at all?

The officeholder has almost no power and is a prisoner of corporate lobbyists. The truth is nothing gets done for the people. Even with all the passion that a candidate feels and shows trying to get the job, as soon as they arrive and are embedded into the office, they become a shadow of their ideals. What does the president do anyway? Over a hundred million people get involved, wait in line, and vote, but in the end, the office itself has crushing limits. We never see what we voted for come to fruition through that office. It has evolved into some puppet shows in which the office holder becomes the puppet pulled by the strings, but the poor silly little puppet never really gets involved 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’s governing apparatus is the Senate. So why not eliminate the office of the presidency and let us vote nationally on our senators? We can create a small group within, like the “Gang of Eight” 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 Ancient Rome and let the Senate run the nation. Hell, they do it anyway, so 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 on their pets like it is a news story. We wonder who left cocaine in the White House. The whole thing is a sardonic reality show that should be thrown into the ashbin of history.

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 Ancient Rome. Let the Senate speak for the people. The President is our modern-day version of Caesar from the Roman Empire days, we should learn from the past and apply it to now. The presidency and its office have become the biggest and most expensive puppet show in the history of mankind. Joe Biden has not been running the country. Whoever has been running the White House is an unelected shadow that does not answer to the public.  It is time to end the notion that we need an of this. It is time to end the nonsense and the spurious self-belief that we need a president in the twenty-first century. Let us listen to the ideas of Marcus Aurelius from the past and let the Senate rule. Let the debate begin.

C. Rich

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C. Rich

C. Rich is the voice behind America Speaks Ink, home to the America First Movement. As an author, poet, freelance ghostwriter, and blogger, C. Rich brings a “baked-in” perspective shaped by growing up on the streets and beaches of South Florida in the 1970s-1980s and brings a quintessential Generation-X point of view.

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