Posted on 09/07/2018 6:15:23 AM PDT by C19fan
If the United States has a sacred text, its the Constitution. Americans are taught, from an early age, to venerate the 231-year-old document, which occupies what can only be described as a shrine at the National Archives. The presidency of Donald Trump illustrates the problem with this veneration. It is not that Trump lacks for critics, but that the Constitution does. Not enough people connect the dots between our political dysfunctions and the sacred Constitution of 1787.
(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...
The Founding Fathers were incapable of imagining that in the future we could be dealing with ignorant, irrational, or even unreasonable citizens.
Incompetents today can't grasp the difference between "the people" as the original citizens of the United States, not every individual in the entire world.
Similarly, the founding Fathers were incapable of imagining that the "citizens" of the future could or would embrace koranimals as a religion, with all Constitutional rights and protections.
Just to list two of dozens of insane examples. Actions by a clueless public, incompetent Legislators and even tribal and pervert politics by Supreme Court Justices.
Because Scalia spoke truth, and TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH!
Somehow, I think that if the Republicans decided to nuke cloture completely, and started passing Trump-favored legislation over the screams of the Dems, that this author would be among the first to start screaming hysterically.
Opinionated chaps like the author do not bother to read it as an entity, so they do not really understand it.
And... the certain rejection of errors (including punctuation!) in any manuscript copies distributed to the 13 States.
There's stupid, and then there's "stupid on steroids."
No State ratified the Constitution without the Bill of Rights, which was not added to the "Final" Constitution until the end of 1791...
Anyone venerating (or disparaging) the "sacred" 1887 version is a certified idiot!
America is at that awkward stage where it’s too late to work within the system but still too early to start slitting throats
yet... there may come a time when you must spit on your hands, raise the black flag and start doing just that...
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