shortylickens
No Lifer
- Jul 15, 2003
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Yeah I think we passed the "lesser of two evils" stage a long time ago. We're so bad off we need a serious independent runner.
Yeah I think we passed the "lesser of two evils" stage a long time ago. We're so bad off we need a serious independent runner.
Yes, instead of a president who tries to make the country better, let's say "they're both bad wahh wahh" and elect some asshole whose goal is to destroy the nation and the economy in order to make it match his bizarre ideals. Because "they're both bad".
Yes I have and there are varying degrees of it, but does the Constitution really allow for it more than it is trying to prevent it now? I mean, I don't think even half of those who are governed believe that we're consciously consenting and the author of the Declaration also said slim majorities bothered him. We're pretty much forced to consent as of now. What is your solution? Please let me know... I'm just wondering
I think we need something that can't prohibit nullification.
I don't know that that's the solution either. George Washington was seriously and intuitively independent, but we still have people like Hamilton which means that the executive was allowed too much power by the Hamiltonians who largely designed the current supreme legislation. Two of guys who wrote drafts of a a Confederal Union were the most moderate supporters of the Constitution but Franklin definitely acknowledged that it was going to be very imperfect if the people were unsatisifed. Franklin, Washington, and Jefferson would see the mistake they made. Adams probably would just do what he wanted if he were alive today like reinstate the Federal Property tax.We're so bad off we need a serious independent runner.
That's debateable. Legislation seldom stops criminals. Don't you like nullification and States' rights though? I do.The Constitution isn't the problem, it's the people interpreting and enforcing it, and the people that let their personal, and moral views be imposed on others that are the problem. You seem to be under the impression that a law, or document is going to dictate how society runs, it isn't. Just like laws don't stop criminals, the Constitution, or your Articles of the Confederation aren't going to automatically make anyone any better off, it's the people that rule, and are ruled that make them what they are.