The American public has voted in a Marxist radical for president twice in the past two presidentials. Somehow I don’t think the nefarious capitalists are controlling all the strings in our political discourse democracy. Quite the opposite in fact.
Wow, this guy really tells it like it ain’t!
It’s been a long time since my American History classes, but this guy is hellbent on twisting things to suit his views.
What a dork.
I am saving this excellent, informative column.
Thank you so much for finding and posting.
That says it all. What this moron advocates is creating a new Marxist governmental structure - and wants to get ahead of the pack to simply set the meme that he hopes becomes the revolution he and his ilk so desperately want.
There is no coexisting alongside this bunch. Their aims are being made plain each day.
He says that like it's a bad thing.
Democracy is the most easily misled and corrupted form of government known to man. It is a Lynch mob on steroids.
They would be even more scandalized by big government.
The leftists I’ve talked too seem ignorant about what happened in CU. So when explaining the govt attempted to censor a movie the leftists try to deny that happened!!
Notice this op-ed does not mention Hillary:the movie
As if Majority Tyranny suddenly is not a huge threat to Liberty.
As for the ownership of property and its protection, again, this concept includes those with a little property, as well as those with a lot.
This guy's tripe is pure, unadulterated Marxism. He uses the flaws and biases of the Founders in an attempt to indict the ideal concept of individual rights and Liberty, subjecting them to the arbitrary whims of the mob.
The Founders, however selfish they may have been, knew very well the dangers of pure democracy. Those dangers have not changed one bit. Indeed, they have manifested themselves in murderous fashion throughout the 20th century, resulting in more widespread slaughter of human beings than at any time in recorded history.
This "flawed" document has produced the highest standard of living in the world, including more ownership of property by individuals, even considering the extra problems which our society has had to endure, such as, for example massive immigration, which puts pressure on labor markets as well as producing massive cultural friction.
What a crock of shit this guy is trying to peddle.
Democracy is not an ideal to be striven for, and despite the Founders' biases, it's a fact that a lot of the masses are too poorly informed to govern themselves.
Look at the massive welfare state which has resulted in widespread dependence and a profound lack of progress in the groups where it is most prevalent. Indeed, they have regressed in almost every measurable way.
As always, the solution for guys like this writer is always the same: all we need is more socialism/Marxism. Who'd have thunk it?
I wouldn't use this article for toilet paper if it was printed. Kindling, maybe...
And this bon mot:
"Certainly, it’s absurd to think that a document crafted by wealthy slave-owners, merchants, and other vast property-holders with the explicit purpose of keeping the “wicked” popular majority and its “secret sigh for redistribution” at bay can function in meaningful service to popular self-rule in the 21st (or any other) century.
This is a poorly written article. When you have to use words as "celebrated" and "comprehensively researched" to describe the authorities you reference (itself a giant logical fallacy), you've lost the argument.
'Pod.
Kudos to the author for being honest about his goal.
This call is something those who want a convention called by the states to propose amendments should consider.
The original Constitutional Convention was also called to propose changes to the existing government. It wound up completely replacing it.
I think it’s reasonable to note that under the principles of the Declaration of Independence and Constitution, we as a people have every right to completely change our system, if we so decide. I suspect the Founders would be astonished that their Constitution is still (sort of) in effect despite the amazing changes in the world.
“Other countries hold such constituent assemblies (for example, Venezuela in 1999, Bolivia in 2006-7, and Ecuador in 2007-2008) and so should the U.S. Certainly,”
Yeah, those are 3 countries we should emulate/s.
The source TeleSUR:
"Its sponsors are the governments of Argentina 20%, Bolivia 5%, Cuba 19%, Ecuador, Nicaragua, Uruguay 10% and Venezuela 51%." -http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TeleSUR
This is an unsupported assertion. All that follows is nonsensical.
Thanks to our God-inspired Constitution the United States of America became the most powerful country on Earth. The USA has drifted away from God and from defending our Constitution. Progress has been in the wrong direction since Carter took office.
We now have rampant corruption and chaos that is not even recognized as such. Some leader has to connect the dots and take corrective action. This will not be easy given the warped, twisted, and self centered thinking of too many of today's voters, IMO.
The pool of low information voters is increasing.
Implicit in that talk is the faulty assumption that the big corporate money comes only from conservatives for conservative causes.
And that unions weren't a major beneficiary of Citizens United.
Wow. So much drivel. So many words. Being such an historic scholarly article, yet misunderstanding completely, totally, and fully, the intent of the Constitution, the intent of the “holy” Founding Fathers... Wow.
The Constitution of The United States of America was indeed the 5,000 year leap forward in the advancement of humankind. No country has ever become so strong, powerful, wealthy, and benevolent in so short a time in human history.
Yet pimple-face here thinks it’s a bad thing.
Betcha this guy is a “Declaration of Independence denier”, too...
Which is, I suppose, the reason they formed a REPUBLIC, instead of a straight-up democracy.