@eladar said“Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence, and deem them like the ark of the covenant, too sacred to be touched. They ascribe to the men of the preceding age a wisdom more than human, and suppose what they did to be beyond amendment...But I know also, that laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind. As that becomes more developed, more enlightened, as new discoveries are made, new truths disclosed, and manners and opinions change with the change of circumstances, institutions must advance also, and keep pace with the times.”
We are talking about the actual meaning of the Constitution as opposed to the redefinition of terms.
― Thomas Jefferson
https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/1673.Thomas_Jefferson?page=3
@moonbus saidThat is why the Constitution can be amended. The Constitution was written to protect the people from the government.
“Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence, and deem them like the ark of the covenant, too sacred to be touched. They ascribe to the men of the preceding age a wisdom more than human, and suppose what they did to be beyond amendment...But I know also, that laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind. As that becomes more d ...[text shortened]... times.”
― Thomas Jefferson
https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/1673.Thomas_Jefferson?page=3
Too bad people with your point of view want the people back on the manor and have gotten much of their desire.
@eladar saidIt's Trump the people need protection from. He's power mad and is actively undermining and corrupting the processes and institutions of democracy.
That is why the Constitution can be amended. The Constitution was written to protect the people from the government.
Too bad people with your point of view want the people back on the manor and have gotten much of their desire.
@eladar saidYou need protection from people trying to corrupt and damage the electoral process. People like the ones who tried to stop one of Joe Biden's charter buses from reaching its rally destination in Texas, people who disparage and disrupt mail-in voting, people who set up robot-calling to tell people to "stay home and stay safe" (i.e., to scare people into not voting), and a president who encourages vigilante activists like the Proud Boys ("stand by" -- for further instructions from your commander in chief). That's who.
OK Mr. not American and Christian hater. Tell me who I need protection from...
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@eladar saidJoe Biden is one of the most moderate Democrats in America.
@mghrn55
You mean what is right. Dems are so liberal that anyone with traditional values will find it difficult to vote for them.
Soon enough the liberal education system and non enforcement of immigration rules will lead to the America you would like to see, the non America, America.
That you and Trump think he's a "socialist" shows how rabidly right-wing you both are.
And oh, didn't you mean to say "non-white America"?
@eladar saidAh yes, America for the true Americans. Like the Apache, Pueblo, Crow, Arapaho, Shawnee, Cahuilla, Blackfeet, Catawba, Cherokee, Cheyenne, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Comanche, Coquille, Delaware, Hopi, Karuk, Menominee, Seminole, Sioux, ...
@mghrn55
You mean what is right. Dems are so liberal that anyone with traditional values will find it difficult to vote for them.
Soon enough the liberal education system and non enforcement of immigration rules will lead to the America you would like to see, the non America, America.
None o' them johnny-come-latelies.
@moonbus saidTrue Americans as in those who embrace individual freedom and self reliance.
Ah yes, America for the true Americans. Like the Apache, Pueblo, Crow, Arapaho, Shawnee, Cahuilla, Blackfeet, Catawba, Cherokee, Cheyenne, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Comanche, Coquille, Delaware, Hopi, Karuk, Menominee, Seminole, Sioux, ...
None o' them johnny-come-latelies.