WOW, this is unbelievable to me.

[Teufelhund]

That's a specific philosophic belief that many people no longer adhere to.

So it makes sense that a lot of people don't "understand" that. They just don't believe in the philosophic principles that give rise to that sort of thing.

It is not a specific philosophical belief. Our rights are defined in these documents as self-evident and inalienable, meaning they do not necessarily need to be defined and they cannot be transferred or surrendered. They are naturally occurring properties of the human condition. Our founding fathers meant they were endowed by God, and I'm sure that's what you are referring to. This is not necessarily so, depending on one's own beliefs, but belief in God and acknowledgement that a person is born with the inherent right to speak his mind, think his thoughts, and defend his life (et al.) are not mutually exclusive concepts.

[Zundfolge]

There is nothing all that new or unbelievable about this.

The elimination of the Constitution is the heart of Progressivism and has been since Woodrow Wilson and Teddy Roosevelt embraced it a century ago.

We are at the end phase of a very long plan ... this crap didn't start with hippies in the '60s Or for that matter with the Bolsheviks in 1917.

[tmleadr03]

https://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/31/o...stitution.html

[mahabali]

Good lord.

[Pancho Villa]

Oh look it's this thread again.

[Ridge]

Wow

[ChunkyMonkey]

Sad

[theGinsue]

Merged threads

[TDYRanger]

There a couple of good point he brings up "Why should a lame-duck House, 27 members of which were defeated for re-election, have a stranglehold on our economy? Why does a grotesquely malapportioned Senate get to decide the nation’s fate?"

great point actually, his blaming the constitution is where things fall apart. A better culprit would be a two party system so ideologically separated in their voting (not in ideas) that hey can't get shit done. Or the rampant special interest money buying votes and elections (over and over). Just to start with. The constitution would come waaaaaaaaaaaay down the list of things effed up

[TDYRanger]

this crap didn't start with hippies in the '60s Or for that matter with the Bolsheviks in 1917.

Exactlly!