As a nation, we seriously need a "do over"

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Roget's New Millennium™ Thesaurus - Cite This Source
Main Entry: correct (Definition: to counteract the operation or effect of (something hurtful or undesirable)
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: fix
Synonyms: alter, ameliorate, amend, better, change, clean up, cure, debug*, do over, doctor*, edit, emend, fiddle with, fix up, go over, help, improve, launder, make over, make right, mend, pay dues*, pick up, polish, reclaim, reconstruct, rectify, redress, reform, regulate, remedy, remodel, reorganize, repair, retouch, review, revise, right, scrub*, set right, set straight, shape up, straighten out, touch up, turn around, upgrade

Source: Roget's New Millennium™ Thesaurus, First Edition (v 1.3.1)
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* = informal or slang

Yep. Doesn't matter how you say it, we need to clean the slate and start over.

[Bluerthanblue]

1. unfortunately,

i agree. But cleaning the slate could be more than this country can face.

:eyes:

[zonmoy]

3. Unfortunately it is something I fear we will need to face.

[live love laugh]

2. Not with the crooks we would have to negotiate with to start over.

I just learned (relearned?) on Bill Moyers' impeachment show yesterday that it too ELEVEN YEARS to write the Constitution. With America's short attention span and those with conflicting interests with their hands in the till, we would come out in worse shape I'm afraid.