[OriginalIntent]

And you'd replace one oligarchy for another, one in which the state has the authority to express the beliefs of its people, or at least one in which no one will be able to question official pageantry as long as it is Christian.No, that is not what I believe.

What you are saying is that the entire history of the United States before the (not exact) Warren Court was an oligarchy. The conservatives just want the constitution to be followed as intended, just like it was for the most part before 1947.

If that was an oligarchy, they sure did not think so.

[risk]

Do you recognize that threats to our freedom could emerge from a reaction to this perceived oligarchy?