Bastiat's The Law
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I always wondered why they simply didn't move to Europe, they would have their pick countries.I wish progressives could just leave and start a new socialist country on their own.
"If 90% support something, of course the legislature should do something"
"The Constitution -small states get disproportionate representation - founders couldn't have foreseen this vast disparity."
"Founder couldn't have foreseen machine guns"
"The Constitution needs a page 1 rewite, Senate apportionment and 2nd amendment"
Applause for "50% wins"
Yeah, damned be the rights of the 10%!
Um, actually, that's what they foresaw. That's why there's "the people's" house, and "the States'" Senate. One represents what the bulk of the US population wants with equal voice to each, and one represents what the State governments want with equal voice to each.
Again, they foresaw this. The point of the 2nd amendment was to secure "well-regulated militias" - which were assumed to be agents of the people, NOT the state or federal govts in particular. To have "well-regulated militias", the founders would have said that they should have access to the most cutting-edge military technology to combat whatever threat they were employed to engage.
I agree. It needs to be taken to whatever big govt ends Maher wants. It also needs to allow for "the consent of the governed".
I'm more and more scared every day. Not of the tyranny of the rulers - which I'm used to. But of the absolute Nazi-fication of the population. I feel like the mob is too far gone.
If it was just a small group of "elites" trying to pull one over on us and take absolute power, We'd have a chance through education and counter-political action.
But in this world of extreme patriotism, extreme faith in the one true god, education only further alienates the remnant, picking up a small margin of the ever-consolidating mob of statists.
This isn't going to end from our efforts. The only possible ends are (1) military defeat, like Germany, or (2) govt collapse, like the USSR.
I think we should try to push things to the USSR model. At least then we'd be able to pick up the pieces and have a plan in place for a new system, be it Constitutional Minarchism or Voluntarism, for whatever fragments come to be after the dissolution.
I am so very glad I have more hope (and not without my wearisome days too) than you do for this Republic.
She gave a piss poor defense IMHO.I've yet to see anyone ask him "So, you advocate mob rule?". Whould to extend that "mob rule" principle to jury trials?
BTW, Amy Holmes is sexy...oh the things I'd.....![]()
I don't give a crap about "this Republic".
I only care about people, their rights to be free and prosperous.
And those are being threatened more and more, not by some top-down authoritarian bully. They are being threatened by a horizontal slave-on-slave mentality that resents that people who "don't pay their share," "don't want to play by the regulations I play by," "don't revere the flag as much as I do," or "don't think that dead soldiers were fighting for our freedom."
If you go to town-square and speak about rights, about free-trade, or about human flourishing in a free society (or "republic"), you probably won't be shackled and thrown in a cage by the authorities. You'll probably be shouted down by a bunch of people that emotionally react to your message as being an affront to their tribe. You'll probably find that your message alienates 10 times more people than it draws in.
Have hope if you find it beneficial to you. But I think that hope blinds you to the great amount of work that needs to be done to lay the foundations of what you really wish to see.
If you go to town-square and speak about rights, about free-trade, or about human flourishing in a free society (or "republic"), you probably won't be shackled and thrown in a cage by the authorities. You'll probably be shouted down by a bunch of people that emotionally react to your message as being an affront to their tribe.
I watched this crap and he actually read the 2nd amendment out loud and they said...."This does not give the individual a right to a gun"...This does not give the individual right to own a machine gun"
I just about jumped out of my chair!!!!
He frikkin read it...out loud...Then says we don't have the right to a gun....Who the hell taught these people reading comprehention?
DID YOU NOT HEAR THE WORDS THAT WERE COMING OUT OF YOUR MOUOOOOTH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Yeah, damned be the rights of the 10%!