04-28-2020, 09:42 PM
(This post was last modified: 04-29-2020, 02:42 PM by Bob Butler 54.)
(04-28-2020, 02:52 PM)Warren Dew Wrote:(04-28-2020, 12:10 PM)David Horn Wrote: We're at a point that a wholesale reimagining of government is needed, but the US Constitution is designed to make that all but impossible.
The civil war completely changed the US government, and the US Constitution was flexible enough to survive that. WWII also resulted in huge changes. The Constitution isn't the issue here.
The Constitution still has a lot of the old slavery compromises, which give the rural states artificially more power. The original intent was to avoid threatening the practice of slavery. Today, is does a significant amount to let the rural population block the urban areas from solving problems. Some view this as the base cause of many problems. Whether this crisis, and the rural party’s prevention of a clean solution to the COVID 19 crisis, is enough to make the general population change this is still a question. We will see how badly they mess it up.
That this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth.