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They should abolish all of homeland security really. They only made it after 9/11, on the back of the unconstitutional patriot act. We should start over with something new, the rot is too deep at these agencies.
We will not though, republicans have a plurality of support on this issue generally even with the dissatisfaction with recent news events.
100 fucking percent. If any part of the current U.S. government should be just scrapped and burned in a fire with bipartisan support, it's the patriot act and everything that came with it.
Given how these fascist fuckers operate, it's no surprise they would wrap one of the most unconstitutional and unpatriotic pieces of legislation in American history inside of a bill with a name like that.
Just like Trump sending a small military to invade American cities and murder Americans was for our "safety." So are all of the crack downs on free speech, protests, constant surveillance and invasion of our privacy. It's all for our own good, and if you disagree you're unpatriotic and keeping America from being "great." The audacious horseshit logic and brainwashing is fucking insane.
I sentence the patriot act and Common good "constitutionalism" to kiss my ass.
"It's awkshully more patriotic of you to willingly hand over your rights and liberties. For your own safety and for the common good."
What a shocking twist that the "anti-elitist" Harvard law professor (I'm not even kidding) who came up with the legal theory of common good constitutionalism, just happens to be obsessed with the legal scholar who helped make the German constitution secondary to the legal authority of Hitler.
The idea that "we" (the majority) voted for the leader to hold office, and therefore if he wants to wipe his ass with the constitution and tell us he's doing it for our own safety and the good of the country, is fascist horseshit, and just an obvious rip off of the laws that allowed Hitler to come to power. Especially when our "leader" just straight up "jokes" about cancelling elections.
Carl Schmitt
Führerprinzip
How "lucky" are we to coincidentally have a leader who claims to be guided by his own morality rather than any written laws...?
"the central aim of the constitutional order is to promote good rule, not to 'protect liberty' as an end in itself" ...Within this tradition, he claims law is defined as "an ordinance of reason promulgated by political authorities for the common good."...Vermeule states that law in this sense is "not tethered to particular written instruments of civil law or the will of the legislators who created them" but instead embody rational determinations of the common good, and it is those determinations, as well as the natural law background against which they are made, which constitute the law. Vermeule says that these principles include "a candid willingness to "legislate morality
The establishments today, especially the legal establishment and bureaucracies, think the republic is already dead. As such they will neglect protecting the constitution, neglect protecting honest elections. The only thing that stopped the supreme court in 2020 was that it looked like it wasn't going to work. 5 states, with mostly blue governments to some, and people in their own party resistant to faithlessly betraying the vote.
Those people have been purged from their party and made an example of, relevant positions to steal the vote have been stacked, and the partisan base has gotten away with systematically levelling masses of death threats on election officials, hundreds crossed the legal line just that reuters invetigations found, and the administration filed mild charges in a literal handful of cases, by 2022 I think one single prosecution.
Voting officials have death threats on them, their families, and the justice department refused to protect them even with a democratic president. It's things like that more than anything that led the bureaucracy and courts to abandon the constitution. These democrats won't protect those that stick their neck out to fulfill their duty, the republicans will punish them, and it's all but inevitable these democrats would throw the election sooner or later to the radicalized republican party.
The rich that captured the democrats completely before we were born want to forestall any kind of popular reform that would revoke any licenses they've gotten to take more than their previous shares. In doing so they also created a monster on the right they cannot control and will themselves be destroyed by. In one way and or others. But there is no pulling back now even if they knew some history and realized a supreme leader never ends well for those in power at the time of the anointment. Not in the long term, and not in the short term if the people seizing absolute power are the biggest pieces of shit to start with.
People that support this have no idea what they are doing. Democrats refusing to field a winning program to forestall moderate reforms for their delusional rich backers have no idea what they are doing. I am continually amazed just how dumb people are, to the point that I am now convinced that we are being dosed with toxins that make us compliant. Because previous generations would've never allowed the last ten years.
Maybe the one thing DOGE did was free us from the antiquated Federal Govt. that suffered from a quagmire of stagnant thinking and inability to evolve to meet the needs of the people.
Keep rationalizing. Maybe one of these days you'll convince yourself that things aren't so bad.
Any changes have been for the worse. No question about it.
What? No?