Cletus.D.Yokel wrote:
“Interesting dot-de-dot I’ve been having.
Rights are guaaranteed by the Constitution
The government wishes to strip those rights from us and turn them into privileges.
How best to do it?
Look to socialism; a little at a time.
Once you get to an end point, have the un-elected bureaucrats do it through regulation.
Once that reaches and end-point, get industry/employers to do it.
For eight hours everyday, we have no Constitutional rights in our workplaces or locations of commerce.
From which we can be removed without due process.
The only rights we can stand on are actually privileges provided by un-elected bureaucrat regulators.”
This part:
“For eight hours everyday, we have no Constitutional rights in our workplaces or locations of commerce.”
is absolutely correct.
Problem is, it’s been going on for a long long time.
Personal story:
I was raised on the teaching that I had inalienable God-given rights, secured by the Constitution.
I started working in 1979, at a huge defense contractor.
When I exercised my right to free speech, I found out very quickly that management held that I had no constitutional rights when in that factory.
I stuck it out for almost 11 years, then got caught in the massive layoffs in Dec 1989.
Seattle PD and Seattle Fire walking up the stairs of Seattle City Hall to turn in their boots. These a excellent officers and firefighters with years of service that truly can’t be replaced. pic.twitter.com/OmfrMhCNpc— Katie Daviscourt🇺🇸 (@KatieDaviscourt) October 19, 2021
“For eight hours everyday, we have no Constitutional rights in our workplaces or locations of commerce.”
That’s absolutely not right, it is a fallacious interpretation that feeds directly into the Socialist vision of “how things work”.
Congress is supposed to have 0 power when it comes to contracts, and the erosion of that insulation between them and the citizen is a large part of what feeds todays problems. At it’s heart is the assumption that citizenry are owed, or entitled, to some form/means of employment. That puts one immediately into the realm of superseding property rights and arbitrarily confiscating disproportionate wealth from citizens based on their efforts and abilities.