LUTFA!
The complete takeover of the Judicial Branch by the DemocRAT Party was a stroke of genius. They found that they could use the founding documents against the American people. They turned the Bill of Rights into a weapon to be used AGAINST us.
I’m not sure that giving individual states the right to take away equal protection is a solution to the mess we’re in.
We allowed the rationality of the French Enlightenment to take hold here and with almighty science and reason push the hope of God out of the public forum and our academic institutions.
We wanted to be “modern.”
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There are many ways progressives have empowered themselves, but the fact remains that those in elective office over the past several decades were “empowered” by our fellow Americans who voted them into positions of power in the first place.
The “takeover” of the Judiciary happened by those in elective office appointing the members of the Judiciary (or consenting thereto).
Bottom line: barring a hostile takeover, progressives could not have gained such power without a majority of our friends, neighbors and the rest of the voting public allowing it to happen, and in many cases, openly advocating for it to happen.
Most recent example: voting for Barak Obama not once, but actually pulling the lever for him a second time.
Even now, if enough people wanted it to happen, the Founders provided a mechanism to correct wrongs. Sadly, I don’t believe enough people want it to happen (yet).
Public education. Public “service” Expanding Bureaucracy Expanding government Expanding regulations
It’s all from the 14th. Read the Slaughterhouse Cases. The 14th contradicts the human rights acknowledged by the original Constitution. Therefore unless an alternative interpretation was found, it had to be thrown out. Creating this problem was deliberate - it allowed SCOTUS to rule that a human being could be considered a corporation granted limited privileges, rather than a soul with God-given rights.
That’s it - that’s the whole ball of wax. All the hell we have around us stems from that presumption. It turned the Constitution inside out in an open secret, and to this day people will argue with you if you point it out. Even when you can show that it explains everything. People fear this explanation, so they reject it. That’s why the Left isn’t stopped, and why they laugh.
So if we go down it won’t be because we were fooled by legal trickery. It will be because we didn’t have the moral it spiritual courage to face the real problem, and settled for distracting ourselves with irrelevancies.
Easy answer....the black and Hispanic numbers of voters have grown appreciably. They love big government and taking from the producers. By that route, pandering to the blacks and Hispanics, the progressives get all the other stuff they want. Which is why, of course, they want unlimited immigration. They know the more people they get on gov. dependence, the more they can get all the other commie stuff.
Almost all federal regulatory power, including Obamacare, flows from the Commerce Clause.
Surprised no one has mentioned this bit of American history:
http://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/tserve/twenty/tkeyinfo/socgospel.htm