Posted on 12/29/2021 5:18:44 AM PST by where's_the_Outrage?
The U.S. Constitution is the sacred text of American government and civic life. But it's time to face facts: The document, written in 1787, isn't working. The signs are all around us. Just 38 percent of Americans in a recent Gallup poll expressed either a "great deal" or "quite a lot" of confidence in the presidency, down from 48 percent in 2001. Congress, never high in the public's estimation to begin with, fell from 26 percent to a mere 12 percent. The Supreme Court has also taken a hit, down from 50 percent to 36 percent during the same period.
One reason often cited for the failing Constitution are the people who inhabit its carefully crafted institutions. In Congress, serious legislators are scarce, as many members aim for viral recognition on social media. Freshman Rep. Madison Cawthorn (R-N.C.) freely admitted, "I have built my staff around comms [communication], not legislation." Cawthorn is hardly alone: Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) Paul Gosar (R-Ariz.), Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) and Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.) represent a new breed of legislators who seek recognition and are largely uninterested in passing actual laws.
Disappointing presidents have become the norm. George W. Bush, Barack Obama and Donald Trump failed to bring the country together, with Trump leaving office amplifying spurious claims of election fraud that led to the insurrection on Jan. 6. Although it is early in the Biden presidency, voter disenchantment is already clear, and the unity he promised in his inaugural address seems as elusive as ever. In the 19th century, James Bryce famously remarked that great men do not become presidents. Indeed, great presidents such as George Washington, Abraham Lincoln and Franklin D. Roosevelt are the exception, not the rule.
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How many have been charged with, let alone been convicted of insurrection?
The Constitution is a sacred document imho. The three branches of our government have refused to follow the Constitution therefore no wonder the major distrust and add in the lamestream lies and here the world IS
TERM LIMITS
“The document, written in 1787, isn’t working.”
John, your brain isn’t working.
BTW what is your Chinese name.
Posting from The Hill is the same as posting from Weekly World Report only less accurate.
I would be perfectly fine with destroying the Constitution. Without the Constitution, there is no Republic. Without a Republic, Texas and every other state is free again.
Liberals don’t understand this because liberals don’t understand the concept of Federalism.
The abject failure of a corrupt political party and its lickspittle President are not the fault of some staid Constitution. Far from it. In fact, it is the construction and protections contained within it that have thwarted their treachery up to now. But in the end, importing your citizenry from other failed third world countries is what will defeat it.
Well, I’m sure the Deep State gaslighters at The Hill will have ideas on how to “improve” the Constitution:
Amendment I: The people shall have the right to not be offended by what they read.
Amendment II: The people shall have the right to feel safe against gun violence.
Amendment III: Police and Soldiers shall have the right to take up residence in people’s homes, if there’s bad weather such as a storm, rainfall, if leaves rustle even in the slightest, or if it’s below 75 degrees outside, or there’s a Red air quality alert.
etc.
We the People have failed the Constitution by allowing legislators to craft laws that are contrary to the original intent of the Founding Fathers.
The Constitution is fine
The president does not run the country. He runs the federal government. I wish people would remember that.
The problem is a criminal grifting class of politicians that have no other motive than to be reelected.
Coupled with a huge class of career bureaucrats and NGO’s that depend of the feds paying them for Lord knows what.
Simple solution is term limits -
The constitution is a sacred document. Yep, that’s where the problems start.
Here it comes… the full coup is about to start as the democrats begin in earnest to destroy America.
To borrow from Zig, Our country needs to get rid of our stinking thinking and get a check up from the neck up.
Even if Bush or Obama or Trump had had any interest in uniting the country, which they didn't, the country is too divided for any president to unite again.
So 50 individual states disunited by discarding the Constitution will stand against China and Russia? What happens to our military? Throwing out the baby with the bath water solves nothing.
The problem is that we are not adhering to the Constitution, the greatest document ever written. We have allowed unconstitutional actions to go unchallenged or the courts are failing to protect our constitutional rights. Our Founders were not against Federalism, hence the 10th Amendment.
E Pluribus Unum. No one should be fine with the elimination of the Constitution.
It sure isn’t working... neither is anything else! when the dems went rogue.. it was then written on the wall.
I have said when you are in a battle with someone... and you are the only one playing fair... YOU WILL LOSE.
Some disagree with playing hard and as well as the enemy.
I recall obama telling the troops “do not shoot first”.
Now that’s a lame brain order ..
So, I repeat.. when in a war/battle with someone who is out to do damage... play like the devil is after you.. play like it means life or death.... don’t acquiesce... play as dirty as you need to.
when the SC is not going to rule for you.. when the fBI is corrupt.. when the justice dept is corrupt... when ... yeah, they all are... so play how on this?
Zero. Which begs the question how do you have an insurrection without any insurrectionists?
It works just fine. The problem is those who are actively working to subvert it, with the goal of depriving the people of this country of the individual liberties that the Constitution was written to protect.
The 16th made citizens in every state wage slaves to the federal government,
the 17th made states subservient to the political parties and
the 19th allowed women the marry the federal government.
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