Bipartisan Senate group proposes ‘no fly, no buy’ gun measure

[Bob Butler 54]

(10-08-2018, 11:06 PM)Classic-Xer Wrote:

(10-08-2018, 08:47 AM)Bob Butler 54 Wrote: Win one election with a distinct minority, and you start thinking you can impose the past indefinitely?

The electoral college, the Senate giving small rural states out of proportion power, gerrymandering...  There were many promises made to originally bring the slave states into the United States.  Our constitution reeks of it.  The reds exploit it.  It won't last forever.

I still would like to see another constitutional convention.  I would strip the old slavery compromises out.  I would give the People a direct networked veto over the representative Congress with its support for elites.  I would enumerate rights, strip off the legislation from the Supreme Court bench, make the powers of Congress enumerated again, make the states sovereign again, and do a little more.

But we are not ready for it yet.  We are too disunited right now.  It is not yet time.

You're political views and values are more associated with those of the past than mine.

Maybe.  I do call myself a Whig.  I do identify with Enlightenment values.  I do credit the founding father's generation with looking for a reasonable constitution rather than power and wealth.  I do see that generations since have done much damage in setting greedy law, law that favors the already rich.  I have read a little of history.  I am concerned with legislation from the bench.

I see the modern reds as much more shortsighted, considering themselves and their tribe rather than wider concerns.  They cling to the past in a different way.