We Need Militant Nationalism

[Warren Dew]

(05-27-2017, 05:53 PM)Eric the Green Wrote:

(05-26-2017, 09:09 PM)Warren Dew Wrote:

(05-26-2017, 10:14 AM)X_4AD_84 Wrote: We could have a Citizens' Army that includes everyone from Communists to Constitutional Conservatives. The only exclusions would be for Totalitarians

So your manifesto relies on internal contradiction?  Communists are totalitarians, after all.

Nor does the Constitution have anything in it about the scientific method, the arrow of progress, or positive rights.

The bill of rights? Not "positive" enough fer ya?

The Bill of Rights is all about negative rights - the right not to have the government quarter soldiers in one's house, not to be unreasonably searched, not to be forced to incriminate oneself, and generally not to have the government interfere in one's life in more than very limited ways.

Positive "rights" - the "right" to life, the "right" to food, the "right" to have a nicer house than one's next door neighbor - positive rights are nowhere to be seen in the Bill of Rights.  The government isn't generally allowed to take those things away from one, but it isn't generally allowed to take things away from other people to provide those things to one, either.  If you want those things, you have to provide them for yourself, and not depend on the government to provide them, as far as the Bill of Rights is concerned.