So much is broken in the United States that is not due to anyone claiming rights for themselves. You can make the claim that what is broken is by design. Healthcare, for example, and its unwillingness to make something like viral drug treatments easily available, makes a ton of money on inefficiencies. The food industry, the violence industry, the list goes on and on. I cannot help but feel that the push to overturn past decisions that provided rights to citizens is a redirection of attention away from the real problems so that wealthy people can become more wealthy.
#By the way, it is instructive to think about the purpose of the United States Constitution, which is to restrain government by restricting its power to enumerated rights. Recall that the first draft of the Constitution did not have a Bill of Rights, why was that? It was because Madison felt it unnecessary because he thought it was "self evident" that citizens had rights and it was the purpose of governments to preserve the rights of citizens. The fact that this understanding of citizens rights as being self evident, and that Constitutional amendments were needed to extend these "self evident" rights to women and people of color are/were a big red flag.
#The founders believed the best way to insure government preserved rights of citizens was by restricting the powers of government. The sad irony is that this basic understanding of the Constitution and our government is supposed to be what conservatives claim to be "conserving" and yet their actions are the exact opposite. What concerned citizens should be asking is, why is that? And
why is it that CPAC is holding their next conference in Hungary? And why is it that the party of Reagan is all in on Putin?
#Lot's of time to organize and get people out to vote in November.
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