This is a quote by Benjamin Franklin. He said of our Constitution that, though it was imperfect, it was as near perfection as could probably ever be attained by mortal man. We have been fighting SO LONG to win back our Constitution, and now, when the tide is finally turning, you people want a Caesar?
I hear you, pede, but hang on a little. Let's see what happens in November. Then, let's think VERY carefully about what comes next. How about, like, actual states' rights, like the 9th and 10th amendments are supposed to protect? Under a dictator there are no rights. By the way, what we have is essentially a constitutional monarchy, which is not actually Constitutional. If people just PROTECT THE CONSTITUTION instead of finding six ways from Sunday to make excuses why they should ignore abuses of it or throw it out altogether, it works--not perfectly, of course not, it was fashioned by mortal men, but it works pretty well. Don't attack the Constitution, attack the EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM that is attacking the Constitution! That's how all this started, infiltration of academia! Fight!
The problem is, eventually, like Rome, you'll get somebody who won't give up his powers and the legislature will be too weak, corrupt, or inept to force him to step down. Given how bad they are already, I give it about four years.
I think we all should wait until November to see what to do next. There is a lot of propaganda trying to make it seem like the sky is falling and frankly I don't think it is. I think the future is solidly in the hands of conservatives and we should think now about exactly what direction to go from here, and not make rash and destructive choices now as a reaction to the D party's dying thrashes. To be clear, I'm not advocating complacency--we need to bust our asses in November to get Trump reelected--but I advocate discretion and respect for the wisdom of the Founders, who absolutely thought of all this stuff. Anybody trying to tell you "the Founding Fathers never anticipated x" is usually uninformed. They really thought of just about everything. Remember, they lived under a monarch! They were intimately familiar with Roman history also. Rome was a constant companion in debates over Constitutional law. They debated everything we're talking about here. We should all go learn from them before we start ripping up what they wrote. We're not Democrats, are we?
"Democracy is like two wolves and a sheep deciding what's for dinner"
This is a quote by Benjamin Franklin. He said of our Constitution that, though it was imperfect, it was as near perfection as could probably ever be attained by mortal man. We have been fighting SO LONG to win back our Constitution, and now, when the tide is finally turning, you people want a Caesar?
No - don't want a Caesar. But we have gone over the constitutional cliff. We have gone over the demographic cliff.
Trump will be re-elected but barring a seismic cultural change that will be our last national election.
Four more years of reprieve and then comes war.
I hear you, pede, but hang on a little. Let's see what happens in November. Then, let's think VERY carefully about what comes next. How about, like, actual states' rights, like the 9th and 10th amendments are supposed to protect? Under a dictator there are no rights. By the way, what we have is essentially a constitutional monarchy, which is not actually Constitutional. If people just PROTECT THE CONSTITUTION instead of finding six ways from Sunday to make excuses why they should ignore abuses of it or throw it out altogether, it works--not perfectly, of course not, it was fashioned by mortal men, but it works pretty well. Don't attack the Constitution, attack the EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM that is attacking the Constitution! That's how all this started, infiltration of academia! Fight!
The problem is, eventually, like Rome, you'll get somebody who won't give up his powers and the legislature will be too weak, corrupt, or inept to force him to step down. Given how bad they are already, I give it about four years.
I think we all should wait until November to see what to do next. There is a lot of propaganda trying to make it seem like the sky is falling and frankly I don't think it is. I think the future is solidly in the hands of conservatives and we should think now about exactly what direction to go from here, and not make rash and destructive choices now as a reaction to the D party's dying thrashes. To be clear, I'm not advocating complacency--we need to bust our asses in November to get Trump reelected--but I advocate discretion and respect for the wisdom of the Founders, who absolutely thought of all this stuff. Anybody trying to tell you "the Founding Fathers never anticipated x" is usually uninformed. They really thought of just about everything. Remember, they lived under a monarch! They were intimately familiar with Roman history also. Rome was a constant companion in debates over Constitutional law. They debated everything we're talking about here. We should all go learn from them before we start ripping up what they wrote. We're not Democrats, are we?
Ironically, the best option for a wolf in this case would be to form an alliance with the sheep to eat the other wolf.
This way, the traitor wolf would have a meal and eliminate future competition. It could also then eat the sheep anyway at any future date.