Stop Worshipping the Constitution

[Nazgul]

Read this thru to the end. Just because you can string words together doesn't mean it will make sense. you may think you are intelligent, but the article is entirely bullish*t. I don't mean to demean bullish*t by the comparison.
The guy is a total douche.

Don

P.S. - I am trying to be nice about this piece of whale sh*t.

 

[KellyinAvon]

If Erwin from Berkeley gets his way he'll be at the bottom of a mass grave. He's just too stupid to realize it.

 

[loudgroove]

The beauty of the 1st A is that the domestic enemies of this great country always exposes themselves. Censorship gives them cover to hide in plain site. Let the POS talk his crap so we will know he is a POS! lol

 

[Ingomike]

Berkeley Law School Dean: Constitution ‘Outdated,’ ‘Threatens the United States’ | ZeroHedge

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[JTKelly]

Aziz Rana Wants Us to Stop Worshipping the Constitution

A conversation with the legal scholar on why its unusual the Constitution is core to American national identity and his new book The Constitutional Bind.

www.thenation.com

Never heard of her.

 

[Mij]

Berkeley Law School Dean: Constitution ‘Outdated,’ ‘Threatens the United States’ | ZeroHedge

ZeroHedge - On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero

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Nope, link wants me to click on something to read.

You got a cliffs notes version?

 

[wtburnette]

Nope, link wants me to click on something to read.

You got a cliffs notes version?

Some over-educated, self important piece of dog thinks the constitution has had it's day in the sun, but it's time to retire it in favor of some communist gobledygook most likely. Didn't read it, call it an educated guess...

 

[Ingomike]

Nope, link wants me to click on something to read.

You got a cliffs notes version?

Berkeley Law School Dean: Constitution ‘Outdated,’ ‘Threatens the United States’​

Originally published via Armageddon Prose:

Berkeley Law School Dean Erwin Chemerinsky, promoting his very patriotic book “No Democracy Lasts Forever: How the Constitution Threatens the United States,” recently penned an op-ed and appeared on MSNBC to float the idea that we need to toss out the United States Constitution — arguably the most eloquent and functional if imperfect governing document ever written, which every Western nation has modeled their own on — and replace it with something a little more Democratic™.

Here the psychopathic cross-eyed nerd — who would be the first to go in the kind of French Revolution-style chaos he’s fomenting, like Piggy in Lord of the Flies — explains.

Via Los Angeles Times (emphasis added):

“No matter the outcome of the November elections, it is urgent that there be a widespread recognition that American democracy is in danger and that reforms are essential. No form of government lasts forever, and it would be foolhardy to believe that the United States cannot fall prey to the forces that have ended democracies in many other countries.
Although the causes are complex, many of today’s problems can be traced back to choices made in drafting the Constitution, choices that are increasingly haunting us. After 200 years, it is time to begin thinking of drafting a new Constitution to create a more effective, more democratic government.
Signs abound that American democracy is in serious trouble. Confidence in the institutions of American government is at an all-time low. The Pew Research Center has been tracking public trust in government since 1958. It has gone from a high-water mark of 77% in 1964 to our contemporary 20%.* A poll in September 2023 indicated that only 4% of U.S. adults said the American political system worked “extremely or very well.” A recent Gallup poll had only 16% of Americans expressing approval for how Congress is performing its job.
Especially individuals in their 20s and 30s are losing faith in democracy. A Brookings Institution study found that 29% of “young Americans say that democracy is not always preferable to other political forms.””

First of all, “democracy” is a broad term that means different things in different contexts. When it’s used generally, it just means rule by the people, and in that sense is the antithesis of authoritarianism of various stripes.

But when it’s used as a specific governing model, direct democracy, of “pure democracy,” is a euphemism for mob rule. This is not what the Founders intended, because anyone who has read Lord of the Flies understands enough about human nature to foresee the outcome.

Second, the reason no one trusts the government is because it’s run by crooked totalitarian bastards — not because of academic concerns over the nuances of the Constitution.

But they’d rather not talk about any of that on MSNBC or any corporate state media, because they are functionally the state.

Continuing:

“There is an alternative to a spate of separate amendments: starting fresh by passing a new Constitution. It does not take much reflection to see the absurdity of using a document written for a small, poor and relatively inconsequential nation in the late 18th century to govern a large country of immense wealth in the technological world of the 21st century.
It may seem strange and frightening to suggest thinking of a new Constitution at a time of great partisan division. But that existed in 1787; in many of the states, the Constitution was just barely ratified.”

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[bgcatty]

The Constitution and SCOTUS may be the only two things left that may save the United States from total destruction.

 

[Magyars]

 

[Ingomike]

The Counter-Constitutional Movement: The Assault on America’s Defining Principles

Below is my column in the Wall Street Journal on the growing counter-constitutional movement in the United States. This assault on the Constitution is being led by law professors who have lost thei…

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[Flash-hider]

The Counter-Constitutional Movement: The Assault on America’s Defining Principles

Below is my column in the Wall Street Journal on the growing counter-constitutional movement in the United States. This assault on the Constitution is being led by law professors who have lost thei…

jonathanturley.org

I wish these elites would relocate to a country that would offer them all that they desire.

 

[DadSmith]

Why eliminating the Electoral College would be bad for democracy - Washington Examiner

It is election season once again. Regardless of who wins and loses, everyone will be forced to listen to more complaining about the mythical “popular vote.”

www.washingtonexaminer.com

People who don't understand the electoral college never paid attention in history class in middle school.

Or do they not teach about the constitution like they used to?

 

[Mij]

Why eliminating the Electoral College would be bad for democracy - Washington Examiner

It is election season once again. Regardless of who wins and loses, everyone will be forced to listen to more complaining about the mythical “popular vote.”

www.washingtonexaminer.com

People who don't understand the electoral college never paid attention in history class in middle school.

Or do they not teach about the constitution like they used to?

I learned about the EC and the Constitution in a class called Civics. And unless I’m mistaken they stopped teaching that a decade ago. Or longer.

Now, I do have a few teachers (3) and a Principal (1) and a Phd (1) in my immediate family, but I wouldn’t be able to talk to them until Thanksgiving.

Unless it meant enough to you to ask my wife to message them.

From what I read on the news, schools have stopped teaching anything that prepares modern students to become anything but mind numbed robots.

My wife deals with multiple thousands of university students daily. She can tell the difference between each individual year of high school graduates every day. From her talk, if anything governmental is not on the web, or FB, or tic tak, it doesn’t exist in there world.

 

[loudgroove]

I learned about the EC and the Constitution in a class called Civics. And unless I’m mistaken they stopped teaching that a decade ago. Or longer.

Now, I do have a few teachers (3) and a Principal (1) and a Phd (1) in my immediate family, but I wouldn’t be able to talk to them until Thanksgiving.

Unless it meant enough to you to ask my wife to message them.

From what I read on the news, schools have stopped teaching anything that prepares modern students to become anything but mind numbed robots.

My wife deals with multiple thousands of university students daily. She can tell the difference between each individual year of high school graduates every day. From her talk, if anything governmental is not on the web, or FB, or tic tak, it doesn’t exist in there world.

My last girlfriend I was with before I got with my ol lady is from Slovakia. She came here when she was 21. And complained that the citizenship classes she had to take to become a citizen taught a lot of stuff that most natural citizens just didn't know. Her biggest complaint was most people couldn't even name the three branches of government. The Civics class at my high school wasn't required, but I took it anyway because I needed the credit for graduation. I was able to answer most of her questions she had quizzed me on. And at that point, I had been out of school for 15 years. But still it wasn't something I had thought about or even knew that a lot of people here in this country didn't have basic knowledge of how our government is supposed to operate.

 

[DadSmith]

I learned about the EC and the Constitution in a class called Civics. And unless I’m mistaken they stopped teaching that a decade ago. Or longer.

Now, I do have a few teachers (3) and a Principal (1) and a Phd (1) in my immediate family, but I wouldn’t be able to talk to them until Thanksgiving.

Unless it meant enough to you to ask my wife to message them.

From what I read on the news, schools have stopped teaching anything that prepares modern students to become anything but mind numbed robots.

My wife deals with multiple thousands of university students daily. She can tell the difference between each individual year of high school graduates every day. From her talk, if anything governmental is not on the web, or FB, or tic tak, it doesn’t exist in there world.

If you want to ask.
It would be interesting to know.
We were taught in middle school It was history class. We were again taught it in high school in US History class. That was what it was called then. Our teacher Mr. Townsend was tough.
He taught it like it meant something to the future of this country and I might have forgotten somethings but most of it stuck.
This was many decades ago. So things might have changed.

 

[Mij]

If you want to ask.
It would be interesting to know.
We were taught in middle school It was history class. We were again taught it in high school in US History class. That was what it was called then. Our teacher Mr. Townsend was tough.
He taught it like it meant something to the future of this country and I might have forgotten somethings but most of it stuck.
This was many decades ago. So things might have changed.

Decades for me also, at that time History was its own class. IIRC Civics was 7th grade.

I’ll ask Mrs. Mij to send the question this evening. Rite after lunch I have to road the JD north a couple miles to load some bales for a customer.