Can a real Republic last forever if the society it serves and which props it up no longer exists in the form that created it? If we look at the Foundations of the Republic it must be clear that just about every single Amendment after the first 10 diminished what that Republic stood for and which the various Colonial and State Representatives wrote, approved and voted for. Using a term the left misunderstands, that the orignators held that there was a Social Contract that bound the original 13 colonies together as one and which each new member state agreed to. They debated it and debated every single word before they approved it.
There is not the slightest shred left of that Social Contract. We like to think that this is because our society has evolved. I don't think that this is so but a lot of people think that things are better and better every day and the way they and previous Courts have muted the clear and singular notes that made this country so different from any other is lost on them. The amusing thing is how many of the left hate what we are today and really hate anything and everything they know about the founders of the Republic. Thanks are owed to the loathsome Howard Zinn. That's the history of America the schools taught your kids and grandchildren.
When I was young there was a coin used in the measurement of the social contract and it had two sides. There were your Rights and on the other side there was your Responsibilities. I'm pretty sure that right now almost nobody who calls themselves a liberal or democrat or socialist has the slightest idea what the responsibilities of citizenship are but if pressed I'm sure they'd all agree that Society "owes them, and owes them big."
Every time the Court acts these days it diminishes the Republic. There is simply no reason to tolerate an endless procession of bad laws that are allowed to persist for decades simply because we have idiots on the Court and because every Court tries to throw down the worst laws using only the most narrow and limiting language so that no destruction of bad law ever gets applied to every bad law exactly like it without further Court review and shenanigans.
People are still allowed to say what they like here but that right is being winnowed and harrowed away every single day and the sheep nod wisely because, "offensive or mean-spirited or hate speech." I don't think I'll like the place 30 years from now but then, I have a cunning plan.
On the other hand, things mostly work out.
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