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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Not when elections are subverted, of course.
Full John Adams quote:
“Because We have no Government armed with Power capable of contending with human Passions unbridled by morality and Religion. Avarice, Ambition, Revenge or Gallantry, would break the strongest Cords of our Constitution as a Whale goes through a Net. Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.”
The cacophony of pornography, sexual deviancy and screaming in the media is mainly a distraction intended to hide something else: the malevolent greed and incompetence of the ruling political and business classes. The same is true of DEI and woke nonsense: it provides a black face and spurious justification for the attempt to impose a corporate fascist state.
In which case the Constitution means what exactly?
I don’t know a lot of Argentina beyond topography, and where it is on a map.
I don’t know a lot of Argentina beyond topography, and where it is on a map.
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Likewise, but before I got too serious about moving there I’d want to vacation there, and before I did that I’d spend plenty of time learning about the crime rate, the climate, the cost of living, the medical care, and how heavy-handed the government rules over its citizenry and its expat residents, especially Americans.
Medical and dental is very cheap. The vacation idea is good, and clearly I’d go do a good recce (Canadian infantry slang for reconnaissance.) I’d diesel board a few locals for the truth about treatment (support oil and gas and I heard water boarding is cruel) and then locate a perfect spot 100 miles from anyone.
What does any list of laws mean? It’s always about the power to keep them enforced. Benjamin Franklin’s admonition “if you can keep it” is not for those who have given up.
And they can only be enforced against a moral and virtuous people willing to accept them.
Such a people would be free of any criminal elements. They would be the people that would obey it. The separation between federal and state laws existed to not only make the central government over-powerful but to relieve the burden of criminal punishment.
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