Posted on 09/04/2024 12:37:24 PM PDT by Starman417
democrats tend to seek to destroy things that they cannot rule over and are roadblocks to a forever one-party fascist state, like Donald Trump, the electoral college, the Supreme Court and more recently, Elon Musk. Now the left has put the Constitution in its sights.
A Berkeley (of course) law school Dean has decided it's time for the Constitution to go:
Erwin Chemerinsky, the dean of the University of California at Berkeley’s law school, called for a new constitution Friday, claiming that failing to make changes would cause the U.S. to “drift toward authoritarianism.”Displaying an astonishingly ignorance of history, Chemerinsky wants to see a pure democracy.Chemerinsky appeared on “Morning Joe” to discuss “increasingly problematic” constitutional provisions that he believed were “undermining democracy.” Chemerinsky cited the equal representation of states in the U.S. Senate and lifetime tenure for Supreme Court justices as provisions that could bring about secession during the interview that promoted his new book, “No Democracy Lasts Forever: How the Constitution Threatens the United States.”
“Choices that were made in adapting the Constitution have come to haunt us,” Chemerinsky told “Morning Joe” co-host Willie Geist. “The Electoral College increasingly is choosing the president who lost the popular vote. Two senators per state is undermining democracy. In the last session of Congress, there were 50 Democratic senators and 50 Republican senators, but the 50 Democratic senators represented 42 million people.”
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Reviewing Chemerinsky's book was another Bolshevik
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We are not, fortunately, a pure democracy. We are a Republic.
Their work, the founders believed, was also an experiment because, as everyone who had read their Aristotle and Cicero and studied ancient history knew, republics – in which political power rests with the people and their representatives – and democracies were historically rare and acutely susceptible to subversion. That subversion came both from within – from decadence, the sapping of public virtue and demagoguery – as well as from monarchies and other enemies abroad.Democracies are inherently doomed
Over the brief life of the Articles of Confederation, under which state legislatures functioned with few constraints, the Framers learned firsthand about the hazard of factions, or what the founding generation often referred to as the “licentiousness of the masses.” As a result, they designed a government in which the people exercised no direct power and only representatives to the lower chamber of Congress were selected by popular vote. And although the Seventeenth Amendment provides for popular election of members of the Senate, individual Senators continue to represent vastly disproportionate numbers of voters....
Factions and the tyranny of the majority remain threats wherever democracy is unconstrained. Witness the sad fates of Germany under Adolph Hitler, Zimbabwe under Robert Mugabe, the Philippines under Ferdinand Marcos, Venezuela under Hugo Chávez, Bolivia under Evo Morales, and Russia under Vladimir Putin, all democratically elected leaders. The lesson, in the oft-quoted words of Winston Churchill, is that “democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.” As the foregoing examples underscore, democracy can fail with horrific consequences.But now the Republic and its Constitution are again under attack. They're coming for Elon Musk. Then they're coming for you and your First Amendment rights. It's an international effort this time.
Kamala Harris has all but said that were she elected she would shut down X.
(Excerpt) Read more at floppingaces.net ...
Mend it don’t end it!
A couple suggestions for amendments that will help a couple problems:
The wealthy should be prohibited from government and politics. They are too disconnected from the common man to be involved in their governance.
Those who cannot vote for a candidate should be prohibited from contributing to their campaign.
They want to rule over the ashes, as the old saying goes................
If the Good Lord hears our prayers Democraps and the lousy RINOs will be relegated to the trash heap. in perhaps a decade they’ll be listed as the subversive gaggle they truly are.
RINOs are even more detestable than the Damnocraps.
I think it's already been published.
Like Erwin’s father, the devil, who knows God and still rebels against Him; she knows the Constitution, and rebels against it.
Both are futile.
All tyrannies rule through fraud and force, but once the fraud is exposed, they must rely exclusively on force.” – George Orwell
Democracy is “Mob Rule”. Don’t Just don’t.
Eliminate the 16th and 17th Amendments. Replace the income tax with the Fair Tax. Require a balanced budget based on a maximum percentage of the GDP. Institute term limits for the House of Representatives of 4 terms. Prohibit former elected officials from becoming lobbyists. Eliminate the abilities of the agencies created by Congress from making rules with the weight of law. Prohibit those agencies from lobbying Congress.
what are your plans to combat the situation?...
typing your way out of this is a destination for failure...
Democrats keep calling the US a Democracy not a Constitutional Republic hoping to turn the US into a Democracy where the blue states are the ruling class and it becomes a one party totalitarian government.
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