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"The Constitution won’t save America"
Unherd ^ | 04/01/2024 | N.S. Lyons

Posted on 04/03/2024 6:04:36 PM PDT by pierrem15

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It may be true that a remnant of the old constitution — the old American nation — remains alive in the hearts of some portion of the American people. But if so, it is now battered and bloody, struggling for breath as the new constitution seeks to finish it off once and for all. Perhaps this is the best way to describe the true cause and nature of the existential political and cultural clash that has riven the American body-politic and continues to grow fiercer by the day: it is indeed, as Joe Biden has put it, a final “battle for the soul of America”.

This is the real reason why the Constitution can’t and won’t save us now: in today’s struggle it no longer has any real power over men because it no longer corresponds to the unfortunate new inner reality of America’s unwritten constitution. The old “infallible public spirit, beyond all praise, which directs everything, which protects everything”, which the document once embodied, is no longer there to give it substance.

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It sure seems that this is what we’re witnessing today. Whether or not we attribute the key role to Christian belief or to some broader but less easily defined national moral character, it seems clear to me that the Constitution is no longer alive with any such frightful sacred authority; it has been thoroughly profaned, and therefore opened to abuse. Nor is there today even a shared national understanding of its meaning and unwritten spirit. Whereas once few people would have dared try to blatantly twist its words to mean something that all would know implicitly they could not mean, our rulers no longer hesitate to do so — and often succeed. They succeed because that implicit constitution has been replaced.

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To: Olog-hai

It’s always worth the effort, but it won’t succeed. We’ve gone far too far into the darkness.

After the cataclysm, perhaps a remnant can start again, but that will only come after a devastating blood-letting.


41 posted on 04/03/2024 8:58:23 PM PDT by Scott from the Left Coast (We have not yet achieved peak crazy)
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To: MinorityRepublican

“ If Trump wins ”

If Trump wins, a massive civil war breaks out - as the Left burns down cities - before Inauguration Day.


42 posted on 04/03/2024 9:00:49 PM PDT by Scott from the Left Coast (We have not yet achieved peak crazy)
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To: Scott from the Left Coast
If Trump wins, a massive civil war breaks out - as the Left burns down cities - before Inauguration Day.

I agree. One of the reasons why I said Trump is going to be lame duck. All the cops will just watch the cities burn and do nothing.

43 posted on 04/03/2024 9:02:20 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: MinorityRepublican

The mayors and city councils of those cities will be supporting those destroying them. It will be Hell on Earth in urban America.


44 posted on 04/03/2024 9:08:31 PM PDT by Scott from the Left Coast (We have not yet achieved peak crazy)
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To: Scott from the Left Coast
The mayors and city councils of those cities will be supporting those destroying them. It will be Hell on Earth in urban America.

"The ends justify the means."

45 posted on 04/03/2024 9:09:36 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: Taxman

ping


46 posted on 04/03/2024 9:15:08 PM PDT by Taxman ((SAVE AMERICA! VOTE REPUBLICAN IN 2024! SAVE AMERICA!))
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To: John S Mosby

“ You’d be surprised what Trump knows…”

Not I

He is from a good family in a nice section of Queens. He went to NY Military academy for high school, his father wanted him to have a good education from there he went to Wharton school of finance. I have two Wharton grads in my family and two from growing up in the neighborhood. They are Al ridiculously successful and BTW honest businessmen

Trump studied Russian and likely speaks Melanias language in the house. He made sure his kids were educated. He married very well. Twice

He knows the military better than most people imagine. He loves this country and is very well versed in the constitution. They say he knows suntzu very well

He relates to the masses because he shares their love of this country. The constitution

I’m guessing a lot of liberals have hijacked free republic

I’m Irish and as Fulton sheen said there are theme basic things that define the Irish one of them is love of a fight

I love the anonymous debate here. But more and more the illogical opponent the liberal takes all the fun out of it. It goes nowhere. I don’t mean I don’t convince them I don’t nut that’s not my goal. I mean it’s a rabbit hole.


47 posted on 04/03/2024 9:21:59 PM PDT by stanne
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To: Olog-hai

You clearly have no understanding of history or John Adams.


48 posted on 04/03/2024 10:00:56 PM PDT by The Unknown Republican
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To: Scott from the Left Coast
Concern trolling, and argumentum ad lapidem since you did not answer my second question. There is nothing that can replace the US Constitution that has been devised among men, primarily because it was specifically designed to accommodate and uphold the Ten Commandments.
49 posted on 04/03/2024 11:17:40 PM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: The Unknown Republican
I know what he said about the Constitution, but that does not mean he was calling for its replacement, remember. There are always corollaries: if the US Constitution is not adequate for the government of those other than the moral and religious (it was not supposed to be; that was the power the state governments kept for themselves), then it is still more than adequate to the punishment of the immoral and irreligious thanks to its limited powers and the scope of the powers of the states.
50 posted on 04/03/2024 11:20:03 PM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: Scott from the Left Coast

Re: 42 - I’m willing to wager $ that if President Trump wins, a “massive” civil war does not break out.

Let’s define “massive” and then make a wager.


51 posted on 04/03/2024 11:25:40 PM PDT by Fury
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To: pierrem15

If we followed it, it would.

The problem is, that those in positions of power won’t.


52 posted on 04/03/2024 11:27:07 PM PDT by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon.” Amen. Come, Lord Jesus…)
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To: fortes fortuna juvat

I don’t seem to remember that happening. Alberto Fernandez was quite far left; that’s one reason Milei ousted him.


53 posted on 04/03/2024 11:29:57 PM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: hinckley buzzard

The EU was patterned after the USSR. The USA can only “end up” that way if it isn’t fought for.


54 posted on 04/03/2024 11:32:53 PM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: Mr. Blond
Left wingers like those two had no interest in saving Republics like the United States.

Pinochet’s constitution in particular has more in common with the constitution of the USSR than of the USA.
55 posted on 04/03/2024 11:37:09 PM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: Scott from the Left Coast
You can always dream. That would be lovely. And no escaping either. Roads out blocked. Electricity cut. No food in. Sweet.

Unfortunately, Trump will not have a 2nd term.

56 posted on 04/04/2024 3:10:00 AM PDT by Badboo (A fascist is the one who wants to take your guns. That's how it always starts.)
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To: The Unknown Republican

The Constitution only works if we are a moral and virtuous people. We are not.
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100% right. Only God can save us now and heal our land, but only if we humble ourselves and turn from our sin. The problem today is there are too many God haters who worship themselves.


57 posted on 04/04/2024 5:14:49 AM PDT by ViLaLuz (2 Chronicles 7:14)
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To: hinckley buzzard

I think it’s going to look more like Venezuela.


58 posted on 04/04/2024 5:37:22 AM PDT by River Hawk
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To: fortes fortuna juvat

I’m debating moving there, buying a ranch and raising my kids there.


59 posted on 04/04/2024 6:05:55 AM PDT by Bulwyf
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To: Olog-hai

A “do not become that which you hate “ warning. When you fight fire with fire you both get burned. Just sayin


60 posted on 04/04/2024 6:12:51 AM PDT by griswold3 (Truth, Beauty and Goodness. )
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