Posted on 07/23/2015 2:17:15 PM PDT by IChing
If you have the patience, this gets to the meat of it the further along you watch. He’s hilarious throughout, which helps. It doesn’t hurt to skip the introductory part, I don’t think, unless you want full context.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-eAKnVGGBI
No, I'll stick with name calling. You're posting crap (We do need new layers of skin and social fabric, to protect us and give us a distinguishable identity) and trash talking the Constitution.
I repeat my obvious point. All we need, ever needed, and ever will need to restore America past this "blip" you speak of is a return to Constitutional Values.
Particularly, universal suffrage essentially guarantees that everything we held sacred via the Constitution can be and has been voted away into oblivion. There is no firewall against mob rule under universal suffrage. The founders had a firewall in place, but it didn’t last very many decades, because voting did happen to an extent from the start. Voting is the means of egalitarianism. Am I wrong?
I’m all ears if you’d like to explain how the founding documents are not a slow suicide pact. Seriously. Instead of knee-jerk hostility, please correct me, if you can offer any instruction. Perhaps you mean by repealing certain amendments? In that case, I’d say you’re making a bit of sense, even if the prospect of pulling that off is virtually impossible.
Btw, I don’t necessarily agree with everything he says, his conclusions, just find the line of reasoning and illumination fascinating. It seems important to me that this stuff be earnestly discussed, instead of our usual default rabid defense of what may be untenable positions. It does seem we need a new strategy. What he says about monarchy is tough to accept, but maybe there’s a different and better way.
I’ve no time to listen to this fool bad mouth the Constitution and call our founding docs a slow suicide pact.
Jim, you’re a better Constitutional scholar than I am. Perhaps you can set him straight. Or just zot him.
Your call.
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It was nice while it lasted. America is gone. What’s next? May the South rise again.
100% agreed. The only remedy for universal suffrage is to require UNANIMOUS adult consent for ANY action by government.
Yep, I know how hard that is.
Yep, I know how weak that would make the government.
Good. Governments are a root of evil in this world.
It was hard for me to accept, but after I read Lysander Spooner, I couldn't help but to agree with him-- and you. Those of you who haven't, read Spooner's "Constitution of No Authority". It's freely available-- Google it. The man predicted what happened in the 20th and 21st century (that the Constitution would not restrain government) back in the 1840's. Brilliant man.
Read some Lysander Spooner. It’s painful, but we must learn the lesson that the Constitution cannot restrain government. Any charter, no matter how perfect, cannot do that. Only the people themselves, through armed oversight, can restrain government. And we have steadfastly refused to do so.
What else can a conservative do since we are the only ones expendable in this whole charade?
Glad someone gets it, instead of attacking the messenger and blindly, belligerently repeating the same insanity over and over again, thinking things will be different if we just keep doing it. There has to be some better way. The neoreactionary approach presented by Paul Ramsey is intriguing, but problematic for the same reasons the Enlightenment came about in the first place, so it’s so important that we exhaustively hash all this out for the future. And find solutions.
I’ve heard of him over the years, may have even read some of his writing, but not sure if I have — definitely will check it out asap. Thanks.
And I agree: the "enlightenment" was a disaster.
Of course, there’s always that old saying being perhaps the only or best solution/truth we’ll ever realize, “democracy is the worst form of government — except for all the others.”
Hmmm, so...governments and countries should be organized on the principle of...? Or no distinct countries, just Judeo-Christian theocracy? Or theocracy of which kind? You lost me.
America IS an idea, a story, an experiment, and not a region or a race; the problem is that we have in our comfort and complacency and pursuit of our own individual ends allowed a radical faction of people to organize and redefine the words.
Then it is not a nation. And its dissolution is not due merely to a radical faction, but to its egalitarian philosophical foundation. Notice that Marxists and Republicans share the same basic ideology, of equality and power to the people....watch the video I linked above.
Wow, I started reading it, so eye-opening....
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