Smart fellers, those Founding Fathers...
Constitutional Eligibility
Posted on 02/16/2015 6:05:28 PM PST by jfd1776
” But one thing stuck with them: the rule that there must never again be a king.”
Um, it didn’t really stick that great, the future dictators/Emperors just kept the trappings of the republic.
Smart fellers, those Founding Fathers...
Constitutional Eligibility
I’d say they were brilliant. They sure had it right.
I suspect thousands of years after the U. S. has fallen, there still won’t be a nation like it.
They’ll all be worse. The world will crumble after our nation does.
Sure were and they would be appalled at what the country is today especially when some speak about how the constitution is so outdated.
I’m afraid that we have long passed the stage where a peaceful political solution is realistic. We can slowly descend into a very dark totalitarian police state, we could have a civil war, or we could have a coup.
A military coup would be the best of several bad alternatives.
Appalled yes, but they did foresee it, and it ain’t over ‘til it’s over!
That, sir, is *precisely* why we have a second amendment.
More like hundreds IMHO.
I know it “ain’t over ‘til it’s over” but I’m a very impatient person ;-)
Hope you’re right. I don’t see the wide open territory and circumstances needed to bring forth another United States, one that is a global source for strength, a philanthropist of sorts, and a fairly even handed player.
Australia with water? A depopulated ME?
I probably wouldn’t go full tilt on a Middle East replacement due to the U. S. Farmlands.
As for Australia, it may be a reasoned consideration. Again I would want to know if it had vast farmlands and the rain and climate to sustain world class food development.
We were fortunate to obtain the land we did. I think it’s quite important for self-preservation as well as to curry favor with other nations who need help.
Bookmarked.
I’m looking at the world after a technological breakthrough, the ability to cheaply produce vast quantities of cheap fresh water from saline.
A fertile Sahara, Gobi, Namib, Outback and ?.
NBC defined in these days as being “born in-country to both citizen parents” by the members of SR 511 committee to vet McCain: the usurper, Hillary, Leahy, McCaskill (who for years has wanted the requirement deleted from the requirements), Coburn, Webb and Homeland Security Chertoff to consult. Of course, by the time it got to the Senate, they conveniently left out that particular part but Leahy had “the definition” and discussion of it all on his site at one time.
I too have a thought that desalinization could change the world.
Then I look at Los Angeles, a place in dire need of fresh water and too stupid to build one plant, and I wonder about mankind.
Have we lost the will to survive? Even basic instinct would cause you to develop desalinization, and yet...
If man can get up the nerve and drive to do it, you’re absolutely right IMO.
Israel gets somewhere between 33 and 50% of their water from the Mediterranean.
I’ll bet there isn’t 5% of the world’s populace that has contemplated desert reclamation like you have. I have considered it. With everything that goes on these days, it does take a back burner position though.
Good call.
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