Funniest line ever!
Who is this guy? Whattabunchacrap.
Who is Steve Chapman and why should anyone give a damn?
Hey Steve, the U.S. is not a “constitutional democracy”. Our form of government is a representative republic.
It’s a difficult distinction for commie libs who wish for mob rule.
If they rule against the Constitution, then yes, there is a serious problem.
One thing the average numb nuts American needs to realize is that SCOTUS has no special powers of perception to continually re-interpret the Constitution to fit the ideology of the current despots sitting on it.
The basic tenets of the Constitution are not that complicated or mysterious. A reasonable study of centuries of English law preceding it goes along way in understanding the intentions of the few areas that are not blindingly obvious.
The SC was never intended to be an elite despotic ruler of the 3 branches.
Wrong.
In a democracy without limit on the franchise, everybody loses, and we're sick of it.
“But deciding how to interpret the Constitution has been the responsibility of the Supreme Court for more than 200 years. If the justices rule against your side, that doesn’t mean the system is broken or that democracy has been violated. The Constitution was meant to put some issues beyond the reach of majorities.
The justices, keep in mind, are appointed by elected presidents and confirmed by elected senators. Even at the Supreme Court, the will of the people plays a major role over time.”
Just don’t even know how to adequately respond to this BS. Trump is correct, we need a retention vote right for these turds.
Poorly written and thought out.
Steve My-ass-is-Chapped-Man must have noted some news that Cruz is doing better than many polls indicate and will be poised to begin a real run at it come next March....
I sorta get where the author is coming from, (maybe).
The system is fine.
It is the people that are broken. The peasants have been turned into mostly an ignorant bunch of fools, tribalized and more concerned about what the Kardashian-Jenners and/or their favorite sports teams do today than what the real world will drop on their heads next week.
It is the politicians that are broken. Our leaders have become our rulers. In it not to build and guide the society like good shepherds but to feed off of its dying carcass like wolves and vultures.
SCOTUS was the first failure of the dichotomy between the rule of law vs. the rule of man. SCOTUS was supposed to champion the rule of law but they have become hopelessly compromised and now are hyper-partisans without any oversight or check.
He does have a point. Leeches are the majority of the voters in many areas.
Socialism Is Legal Plunder
You would use the law to oppose socialism? But it is upon the law that socialism itself relies. Socialists desire to practice legal plunder, not illegal plunder. Socialists, like all other monopolists, desire to make the law their own weapon. And when once the law is on the side of socialism, how can it be used against socialism? For when plunder is abetted by the law, it does not fear your courts, your gendarmes, and your prisons. Rather, it may call upon them for help.
http://bastiat.org/en/the_law.html#SECTION_G022
6. But the grand nostrum will be a public debt…
7. It must not be forgotten that the members of the legislative body are to have a deep stake in the game. This is an essential point, and happily is attended with no difficulty. A sufficient number, properly disposed, can alternately legislate and speculate, and speculate and legislate, and buy and sell, and sell and buy, until a due portion of the property of their constituents has passed into their hands…
9. The management of a great funded debt and a extensive system of taxes…
10. “Divide and govern” is a maxim consecrated by the experience of ages, and should be familiar in its use to every politician…
11. As soon as sufficient progress in the intended change shall have been made, and the public mind duly prepared according to the rules already laid down, it will be proper to venture on another and a bolder step toward a removal of the constitutional landmarks.
http://www.constitution.org/cmt/freneau/republic2monarchy.htm
Debates in the House of Representatives on the First Report on Public Credit 9–18 February 1790
James Jackson (Ga.)
But it is doubted with me whether a permanent funded debt is beneficial or not to any country.
The same effect must be produced that has taken place in other nations; it must either bring on a national bankruptcy or annihilate her existence as an independent empire. Hence I contend, sir, that a funding system, in this country, will be highly dangerous to the welfare of the republic; it may, for a moment, raise our credit and increase the circulation, by multiplying a new species of currency; but it must, in times afterward, settle upon our posterity a burthen which they can neither bear nor relieve themselves from. It will establish a precedent in America that may, and in all probability will, be pursued by the sovereign authority until it brings upon us that ruin which it has never failed to bring, or is inevitably bringing, upon all the nations of the earth who have had the temerity to make the experiment.
http://oll.libertyfund.org/titles/875
DEFUND socialist collectives, foreign and domestic. RESTORE the republic…debt free.
No, The System Is Socialist
That’s rich coming from Biden!
Steve Chapman is a DC insider. Someone that wouldn’t say one critical word of his DC social masters.
The guy is right. All the corruption, all the villainy, all the evil is pretty much baked in the cake as to how Washington operates.
Oh wait. That wasn’t the conclusion this nauseating lickspittle wanted us to come to? So sorry.
WE ARE NOT A DEMOCRACY; NOT EVEN A CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRACY!!!
The United States of America is a constitutional republic.