The Left has always looked down on America. They want to tear up the Constitution, overturn it and rewrite it. If they had the power, they would. They don't want equal justice, God-given rights, free speech. They want to radically change our national fundamentals. Pick it, pack the Court, national popular vote, abolish the filibuster, you name it, all in the name of "democracy." It's their favorite word.

It has been for progressives for over 100 years. They thought we were a democracy. We've always been a constitutional republic. Before Obama was elected in 2008, he said that we were just days away from "fundamentally transforming the United States of America." Did Obama think America was broken? A puzzle that was in a million pieces and had to be put together?

I just love when reactionaries go on about how "wE'Re a ConStiTuTiONaL rEpUbLic!!!" as if we're not allowed to change how we do things if people think it's a bad way to run things. And no, saying "just pass a constitutional amendment if you want change" isn't valid because Wyoming and North Dakota and like 20 other little states sure as hell aren't gonna vote to curtail their own massively outsized power.

The US constitution is just absolute dogshit, worst constitution in the world objectively.

  • LeninWalksTheWorld [any]
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    2 years ago

    Yep we've been based since the 1830s:

    Garrison then produced a copy of the 1850 Fugitive Slave Law and put a match to it. Amid cries of "Amen" the hated document burned to a cinder. Then he produced copies of Judge Edward G. Loring's decision to send Anthony Burns back to slavery and Judge Benjamin R. Curtis's comments to the U.S. grand jury considering charges of constructive treason against those who had participated in the failed attempt to free Burns. As Martin Luther had burned copies of canon law and the papal bull excommunicating him from the Catholic Church for heresy, Garrison consigned each to the flames. Holding up a copy of the U.S. Constitution, he branded it as "the source and parent of all the other atrocities--'a covenant with death, and an agreement with hell.'" As the nation's founding document burned to ashes, he cried out: "So perish all compromises with tyranny!"

    unironicly my view of the US constitution. shit belongs in the toilet.