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Politico Column Slams U.S. Constitution as Undemocratic
Newsbusters ^ | January 5, 2022 | P.J. Gladnick

Posted on 01/05/2022 5:13:55 PM PST by PJ-Comix

In a Wednesday op-ed for Politico, invoking the media’s obsession with January 6, Brooklyn College political science professor Corey Robin flashed just how little he understood about how and why America’s founders set up the system of government they did. Or perhaps the goal was to just undo that great architecture and supplant it with something inferior.

You know how irked Robin is with our system of government right away just by reading the title: "Republicans Are Moving Rapidly to Cement Minority Rule. Blame the Constitution." And since this is January 6 week where it is mandatory for all liberals to obsess about that date, Robin starts off with that but only as a segue to his Constitution slamming.

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To: ApplegateRanch

You deny that high schools stopped teaching the Constitution starting in the 70s?


21 posted on 01/05/2022 7:30:36 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: PJ-Comix

Undemocratic? Who is this little snowflake? I’d ask him, what should be the government and should it be on paper! I’d love to get his answer.


22 posted on 01/05/2022 8:04:18 PM PST by Deplorable American1776 (I'm the one trying to save American Democracy...Donald Trump 6/21 at the NCGOP convention! )
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To: PJ-Comix
"The second is the Constitution, which makes it difficult for the national majority to act and easy for local minorities to rule."

Well at least the totalitarians are now openly admitting that they hate the Constitution.

23 posted on 01/05/2022 8:23:33 PM PST by Tench_Coxe
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To: dfwgator

No, I’m saying that Frank Zappa is wrong when he says that in the 60s, Civics became or was replaced by ‘something called Social Studies’. Both were very different, and required, classes taught at very different grade levels.

Also, Civics was MUCH more than the Constitution, and presumed a prior study of it. It was more concerned with the nuts & bolts of all levels of government; the rights and duties of citizens; and citizenship.

Constitution & Civics were also two entirely different classes, at different levels of school. Civics was generally a senior year required class.

NOTE: I do NOT condone the loss of Civics, though I understand from some others that it never disappeared from some schools, though the state grad requirement was dropped.

Also, I’ve been told by some current parents that it is making a comeback in their districts.

NOTE: This only applies to California, and my experience during the time Zappa cited.


24 posted on 01/05/2022 9:35:16 PM PST by ApplegateRanch (Love me, love my guns!)
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To: Tench_Coxe

“Well at least the totalitarians are now openly admitting that they hate the Constitution.”

And the Constitution doesn’t like them either.

As it should be.


25 posted on 01/05/2022 9:38:54 PM PST by Dead Corpse (A Psalm in napalm...)
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To: PJ-Comix

Plenty of people here oppose upholding the Constitution if it blocks their favorite child of a foreign national from being President.


26 posted on 01/05/2022 9:52:51 PM PST by Lurkinanloomin ( (Natural born citizens are born here of citizen parents)(Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Dead Corpse

Typical New York leftist college professor - MARXIST America-hater who doesn’t even know what they are supposed go teach except Marxism.


27 posted on 01/05/2022 9:57:52 PM PST by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper (Figures )
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To: Jim Noble

Opposite sides of the same coin.🤔


28 posted on 01/05/2022 11:51:43 PM PST by BiteYourSelf ( Earth first we'll strip mine the other planets later.)
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