[Empire_of_Liberty]

I thought you were striving for accuracy and understanding. My mistake.

If you think that the Founders were “futurists”, trying to envision a government of women, I think you’re way off base.

There is very much acceptance of the status quo in the document, as I pointed out, in its extreme brevity.

Unfortunately, this leads to manipulative, legalistic twisting, like, “Well, they did NOT say...”

[Svartalfiar]

If you think that the Founders were “futurists”, trying to envision a government of women, I think you’re way off base.

How do you get that at all, out of what I said? Are you sure you responded to the right post?


Unfortunately, this leads to manipulative, legalistic twisting, like, “Well, they did NOT say...”

What they didn't say is just as important as what they did say, it's not manipulative. The Republic is built off of enumerated powers. If it's NOT written in the Constitution, FedGov doesn't have it. Sure, they've taken many powers they don't have (Lincoln, FDR, Wilson, Clinton, Bush, Obama), but that doesn't mean they should have those powers, and it's gonna take a lot to return them to the States/people.

Unfortunately, while Trump's done a lot of good, I don't see him actually putting the FedGov back in it's rightful place. Hell, he has yet to actually reduce the deficit yet... Trump is not a disbeliever in big government.