Posted on 09/04/2015 4:15:38 PM PDT by yongin
I dunno....the young today are not too swift.
They are well educated but they leaned nothing about critical thinking.
In the EU, all the government has to do is extend the hours at the pub and reduce taxes on alcohol.
In the US, Obama is doing a similar thing with marijuana.
Make them happy and they soon forget that the government reamed them from behind.
Like Net Neutrality....
That’s exactly right.
And with the nuclear option, impeachment, added to the mix, the Congress has nearly complete power to rein in the courts, if they wanted to.
Real pressure of some kind has a way of sharpening the thought. Even pot can’t solve, say, a starvation or a murder problem.
But they won’t....
BTW, legacy law is the body of past law used as precedent for current and future cases.
Well, they are all working two jobs right now...most of them cannot find work in their degree field...some are homeless that were not previously...
I suppose they might figure out who did them in, but they have not done so yet..
Yeah.... unless some kind of breakpoint is interposed (like a new Constitution and everything rebuilt from ground up upon that) there’s going to be all these old law books hanging around.
If you’ve got crappy code you get rid of it. The same is true with government as with software.
Is it hard work? Sure. But in this case our survival as a free people depends upon whether that work is done.
Let me give you an example:
I worked with my state legislator to offer a bill that would ban all abortions in our state. How? One, by clearly and simply defining the unborn child as a person in the murder code. But that wasn’t enough. We had to also go through the entire Iowa Code to remove all of the code sections, mainly put there by “pro-lifers,” that acted as if the child in the womb is not a person, and therefore granted governmental license to kill them.
That’s just what you have to do if you want to restore justice in this country.
k-12 and higher ed has taught them that the rich have stolen all the money and that all republicans are rich.
Any positive human law or statute that violates the laws of nature and nature's God, or our Constitution, is already null and void. This is a foundational principle of western civilization, going all the way back to Hamilton, and Adams, and Burke, and Blackstone, and Aquinas, all the way to Cicero. I've already posted some of their wise words to this effect earlier in the thread.
In other words, in the legal sense, it simply does not exist.
Something is going to have to move people to want to do that.
It’s going to have to take a public that cares. It is not reasonable to expect an elite, an officialdom, to revolutionize itself.
And the way to get it to care is to get it to care about the Lord... yeah a Crazy Evangelical like myself is going to come up with that sooner or later. And that can’t be imposed from outside. It has to be invited and be contagious.
We can jettison everything but the founding documents..
Legacy law can then be gradually re-considered and used if approved in the normal fashion by congress.
There will need to be several new amendments done by convention so the effect is immediate, and I would completely sack the entire education system, rebuilding from scratch..
Might take years to do it but it took 50 years to destroy it.
And fine, you can handwave as Mr. Eternal Vigilance and SAY that, but how does it go about happening in the field.
Gotta remember we are not meta-Gods.
That does not yet exist. It has to be created, nurtured, with a series of catalyst events.. Some of those events my be coming... I think we should be ready to use them advantageously when they occur.
A complex society dependent on technological help is not going to be able to do something like that unless it wants to go back to sticks and stones. Satisfaction with 1776-era standards is pretty well kaput today.
A change in the character of the stewards is the right thing in the long run. And that can’t be forced, for we are the stewards. That has to be invited by faith into the stewards.
I figured that was the case. But I wanted him to clarify before I answered. Thanks though.
The only thing that will move them is Christians getting these things right themselves, and then resolutely standing for them without compromise. Nothing less will suffice.
There are some interesting hints of this with things like the recent ascendency of Mr. Trump, who appealed to the people to stop an invasion of foreigners with unfriendly intent.
If one thinks on the physical level that is one thing. But on the spiritual level it is a problem too. Where God wanted a people whom angels help, we’ve become a people who have longed for the devil to help us.
You won’t ever get a perfect, without-compromise implementation of faith on the surface of this earth. Forget about it. Even the bible says no such thing can happen. Our destiny if saved is heaven and this is but a perfecting zone.
We might, however, get some very significant loving investment in the Lord. Perfect no; zealous towards God (for the most part) and ever-improving, hopefully.
And the results on earth might be quite a witness if that happens. This is the kind of thing that moves my heart, at least.
No, we are certainly not.
The only way to make it happen "in the field' is for conservatives to get the basics down, and for them to stop compromising those basics for any politician, ever.
Once a sufficient mass of Americans do that, and do it consistently, everything will change.
“Perfection” is a straw man.
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