Glitch McConnell bricks himself.

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    1 year ago

    Somehow this guy at his 81 years makes the President (80) and his main rival (77) look vital by comparison. It’s a shame the more youthful progressive candidate (81) is bound to be sidelined. And that politics are derailed by a majority evil, deeply corrupt supreme court, as illustrated by the recent adventures of one of its members (75).

    Thomas Jefferson, who was 33 years old when he signed the constitution, said Constitutions should be rewritten every 19 years. Every generation had the right to their own rules, he claimed.

    The Constitution is now 234 years old. That’s almost three times as old as McConnell.

    At least it looks like you guys might be getting rid of one of them soon. But I’m not sure that’s going to solve the age problem of American politics.

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      1 year ago

      Man if the American constitution was rewritten every 19 years, or at least easier (but not too easy) to amend, they would be somewhere else

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        It’s a fun contrast to see in the light of Constitutional Originalists, who maintain that the Constitution should be interpreted according to the intention at the time it was written rather than being interpreted as a living document.

        By their own argument, the intention of its authors was that it shouldn’t be taken so god damn literally hundreds of years later.