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it started when the spook entered the white house.
Since when did so many people become such cons utional activists? When did this new found love for all things cons ution start, or has it always been that way and I am just aware of it now? Seems like you cant have a conversation with anyone these days without them screaming about PROTECTING THE CONS UTION!!!!!1 Why do I not really give a about the cons ution? Should I feel guilty about that?
it started when the spook entered the white house.
The party out of power somehow remind themselves of the cons ution about the minute they go out of power.
Am I the only person who is completely ambivalent about "The Cons ution" I mean, I appreciate its historical context and all of that, but I'm not exactly frothing at the mouth ready to rain bullets in anyone who may speak ill of it...
How old are you?
35. Why?
text worshipping is for simple minds who are not adult, independent, educated, well-read enough to think critically on their own.
So, especially when they are confused, befuddled, feel threatened, they chicken out and wrap themselves in their fetish-ized, magical text, like the Bible, the Cons ution, the Torah, the Koran, as if text were still magical, as it was 100s or 1000s of years ago when almost nobody could read or write and "priests" as keepers of texts, (ab)used it as a source of personal power over the non-readers.
Even the Muslims say "It Is Written ... "
Along with text worshipping goes cherry picking, and bizarre, twisted interpretations, esp when serving as basis for personal power, politics (esp politics of hate, exclusion, discrimination), money grabbing.
I sincerely hope people like you don't vote, tbh....
Let me guess, you LOVE the cons ution?
Too many duped, ignorant people like you DO VOTE, and that's why America is ed and un able.
I understand the devotion to the Cons ution.
With the reverence so many pay to it, however, I'm disappointed by: (a) how little people are actually concerned with learning about the do ent and its application to American society; and (b) the extent to which people are willing to distort those understandings -- and to inconsistently apply them -- to suit their own political ends.
I love the liberties it protects and recognize the necessary limits it sets on government power....
Most people use the Cons ution the same way they use the Bible. Pick out the parts they agree with and ignore or misinterpret the parts they disagree with.
typyical DISTORTION of the Cons ution by ignorant right-wingers.
The Articles of Confederation were a failure, a mess, so the Cons ution greatly strengthened the federal govt as the only SOVEREIGN power whose laws and regs trump all state laws.
Yup, everything is because of Obama's melanin. Wash, rinse, repeat.
Personally it's not love, but respect. Basically, it's the #1 rule book for the society I live in.
There's no problem with that.
I didn't mean to suggest misinterpreting was ok, just that agreement is not an all or nothing deal
He's carried on most of Repug policies and disasters, so why else than racism would right-wingers, bubbas, "Christian" haters hate Barry? This past Repug campaign was saturated with appeals to racism.
Respect is fine, but it has gone way beyond that lately. I respect it.
You are correct in it's current application, but only because these words:
are largely ignored....The powers not delegated to the United States by the Cons ution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
or, more specifically, these words:
have been expanded to unbelievable proportions."To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes."
(rightly or wrongly - it's a simple academic discussion at this point)
the states have plenty of power. What the "states rights" assholes want is to override federal laws, esp about perverting public schools with "Christianity", racism, etc.
The issue of loving or hating the Cons ution per se is not where the action is, imo. It is that when another party does something politically that the first party doesn't like, the Cons ution is used as the billy club to beat the offending party over the head.
We live in a society whose laws are essentially (theoretically) based on the Cons ution. Ergo, any law with which someone disagrees is met with the scream "that is against the Cons ution". It is sort of the paper version of 'I'm gonna get my big brother to make you stop this because it is against the rules'. Most people really don't love the Cons ution...they just love being able to use their interpretation of it to bash things they don't like about somebody else's behaviors.
Undermining the importance of the cons ution is the cool new liberal thing. Unfortunately for them this is a republic not a democracy and its nonnegotiable.
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