Television personality bungling government

Dear Editor,
The star of “The Apprentice” TV program, where “firing” contestants seemed to be the main and recurring theme, has continued those winning ways into government. I have lost count of how many of his recent hires he has fired. 
He has had many good people to run the government, only to fire them. It appears that unquestioned and unquestioning loyalty is the only requisite for continued employment. Those are the demands of an aspiring dictator.
Nobel Prize winners and their carefully and conscientiously developed theories regarding our climate and fate are dismissed as “fake news” — as if he knew anything at all about the subject! It makes little difference how popular his barroom banter might be, the facts are grim and the prospects for our comfortable survival are just as grim.  
The perception of World Leaders seems to be that we have become completely nuts! We have elected and allowed to stay in office a man who is manifestly unqualified for the job. 
Worse yet, whether by design or nature, his ability to convince large numbers of people of one lie after another is unequaled! All of those character flaws are relatively unimportant. The lies that are destroying our country are important.   
And still, the people in his party seem to ignore the many, many destructive policies he has caused to be enacted.
The Congress seems unwilling or unable to stop or even moderate the radical, reckless ways of the executive. It was far better when we kept our entertainers in TV studios or Hollywood.   
As with any human, it is easy to find faults or merits if there are any.  So why did we ignore the rather obvious faults of both candidates in the last presidential election? And why, with all the good people in the USA, did we have only Tweedle-dee and Tweedle-dum to choose between?  Our present system had worked well enough for a couple hundred years, but it seems to be massively malfunctioning now.
The root of all evil has been said to be money! Our current state of politics certainly bears that out. Our economy has been jury-rigged to benefit the most devious and greedy among us. 
Calling a Constitutional Convention or even just amending the Constitution is a simple way to correct the problem. But, that’s a very dangerous proposition because the greedsters very likely would have a seat at the table. And, they would only make things worse.
—Jerry Baird