The Constitution isn't working

The Hill ^ | Dec 28, 2021 | John Kenneth White

[where's_the_Outrage?]

The U.S. Constitution is the sacred text of American government and civic life. But it's time to face facts: The document, written in 1787, isn't working. The signs are all around us. Just 38 percent of Americans in a recent Gallup poll expressed either a "great deal" or "quite a lot" of confidence in the presidency, down from 48 percent in 2001. Congress, never high in the public's estimation to begin with, fell from 26 percent to a mere 12 percent. The Supreme Court has also taken a hit, down from 50 percent to 36 percent during the same period.

One reason often cited for the failing Constitution are the people who inhabit its carefully crafted institutions. In Congress, serious legislators are scarce, as many members aim for viral recognition on social media. Freshman Rep. Madison Cawthorn (R-N.C.) freely admitted, "I have built my staff around comms [communication], not legislation." Cawthorn is hardly alone: Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) Paul Gosar (R-Ariz.), Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) and Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.) represent a new breed of legislators who seek recognition and are largely uninterested in passing actual laws.

Disappointing presidents have become the norm. George W. Bush, Barack Obama and Donald Trump failed to bring the country together, with Trump leaving office amplifying spurious claims of election fraud that led to the insurrection on Jan. 6. Although it is early in the Biden presidency, voter disenchantment is already clear, and the unity he promised in his inaugural address seems as elusive as ever. In the 19th century, James Bryce famously remarked that great men do not become presidents. Indeed, great presidents such as George Washington, Abraham Lincoln and Franklin D. Roosevelt are the exception, not the rule.

[Joe 6-pack]

Stop signs don’t work either, if people ignore them.

[Apparatchik]

This retard is really trying to claim that democratic principles are failing. Note how he decries the Constitution, but offers no document, no system superior to it?

And he whines about Jan 6 when in his owns words calls for insurrection.

What a putz.

Catholic University = Jesuits. ‘Nuff said.

[Ancesthntr]

How do you have an insurrection when the supposed insurrectionists have no guns, and they stay within the rope lines of the building that they’re “storming?”

[beancounter13]

Why do we need to stand against China or Russia?

Why do we need to have a global presence?

Why should the individual states that make up the United States be any different from the individual states that make up South America?

Wealth, power, prestige all lead to corruption everywhere they have been accumulated. This is fallen man’s destiny.

[Joe 6-pack]

I'll concede the 16th and 17th amendment, and while your point about the 19th is noted, it should not be lost on us that Woodrow Wilson, one of the worst presidents, and worst human beings ever elected to the presidency, was elected by men.

Twice.

[centermass_socrates]

Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) Paul Gosar (R-Ariz.), Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) and Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.) represent a new breed of legislators who seek recognition and are largely uninterested in passing actual laws.
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Passing legislation isn’t always the best play. Blocking legislation plays just as much of a meaningful role, as does informing the public what is being wrought by the socialists in the majority. More laws, more legislation passed, equals less freedom, plain and simple. Smaller government and deregulation doesn’t sound flashy and doesn’t grab headlines like “Legislation Passed”, but it IS what our country needs.

[KC_Lion]

Post of the thread already.

Well said.

[CodeToad]

The US Constitution was always missing one critical piece: Citizen control. We have the vote, and that is it. NO prosecution capability to hold criminals in government accountable.

Beyond the vote, we have revolution, which means things have to get real bad before we can fix them.

[justme4now]

Blame the people!

Too many have given too much weight, too much authority to too many Black Robed Tyrants!

For instance, all of the so called gun laws that have been upheld by a Third Branch of our Government , the SCOTUS, they issue "opinions", nothing more. That is all that they are Constitutionally "empowered" to do!



SCOTUS is a branch of our government and as such .. is also Constitutionally controlled!
(or supposed to be!)

Lest we forget, the Constitution is a control on Government .. not a control on the people.
Why do I bring this up?

Because, it seems that people have forgotten that our God Given Rights are not Privileges, are not "granted" by any branch of the Government .. which also includes the SCOTUS!
(it would seem that SCOTUS has also forgotten this fact).

They, (the people), have allowed themselves to become subservient to an authority that has No such authority!

A simple explanation:




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SECOND AMENDMENT

[Loud Mime]

Term limits accomplishes nothing. Case in point, Pat Schroeder. Look what replaced her. She’s not the only case, but the one I think of immediately.

Politicians are like shark’s teeth. One is replaced with another.

Education is the key. Mandate that teachers and schools study the proper role of our constitutional republic.

[jeffc]

Certainly, career politicians have corrupted our Constitution for their own needs (and wants). How many arrived at Congress with little money and left as millionaires?

What troubles me more is the unaccountable entrenched bureaucracy and the power over us that exists in the alphabet agencies. Living in the US is now akin to being in some dystopian spy movie (Enemy of the State...).

[Samurai_Jack]

So there is your dilemma. With 50 United States the left rules the military and all the levers of centralized consolidated power. All held together by a hollowed out constitution that nobody cares about. Or spend 20 years on a long March though the institutions. They used our liberties against us. You think they will allow that to happen? Dissolution would allow for the inevitable conflict to take place sooner. It’s coming anyway, rip off the bandaid already.

[MarDav]

Shouldn’t there be an article titled, “Ignoring the Constitution Isn’t Working”?

[Ouderkirk]

It’s not working because your side has refused to abide by it

[Lurkinanloomin]

BOTH parties abrogated the Constitution on Usurpation Day, January 20, 2009.

It is just a relic in a glass case now.

[MCSETots]

Sure uses a lot of nasty adjectives when he describes DJT actions compared to Obama and Biden.

I wonder if he’s biased . . .

[Spok]

The only “failing” of the Constitution is that it grants the right of self determination to the populace, and it is they who have become spoiled and lazy, thinking life can be made easier if they can just get more free stuff.

[FLT-bird]

The Constitution is just fine. Faith in institutions is way down. It is down most for the corporate media after years of lies about Russia Collusion, multiple shampeachments, yet more lying denials about the obvious massive election fraud in 2020, then more lies about the Jan 6 mostly peaceful protest and finally the endless lies attempting to cover up the continuous failures of resident Biden.

Faith in 3 letter agencies and the military is way down due to their political corruption and woke politics which infects everything they’ve done for the last several years.

[Qui is]

“...liberals don’t understand the concept of Federalism.”

Liberals don’t understand most things. They are truly unevolved slugs. They rely on their emotions to guide them through life. All that matters to them are their wants and needs. They will even go so far as revising the definition of anything that offends their warped little minds.

[Openurmind]

“The US Constitution was always missing one critical piece: Citizen control. We have the vote, and that is it. NO prosecution capability to hold criminals in government accountable.

Beyond the vote, we have revolution, which means things have to get real bad before we can fix them.”

Actually there is a third and very powerful option that would absolutely work. But for some reason we are in total denial and refuse to actually use it. The POWER OF THE PURSE. Stop feeding the beast in mass. But because no one want’s to cramp their spoiled lifestyles or compromise on their addictions they refuse to acknowledge this or actually practice it.