We're learning that the Constitution only endures when there's a shared foundation

[Bread and Circuses]

We’re learning that the Constitution only endures when there’s a shared foundation—decency, respect for the rule of law, and a collective commitment to protect democracy.

That foundation has fractured.

Since Reagan, the Republican agenda has centered on shrinking the federal government and enriching a privileged few. To achieve this, they’ve weaponized lies and hate. It works—because too many people are willing to trade truth and justice for cruelty. They’ll endure hardship if it means watching “the other” suffer.

What we didn’t grasp—until recently—is the scale. Seventy-seven million voters. This doesn’t end when Trump does.
Republican voters are the problem. Even if some distance themselves from Trump, they won’t abandon the hate. It’s embedded—cultivated over decades, reinforced by grievance, and worn like armor.

We are in a generational fight for liberty. The darkest hours may still lie ahead.
So find your people. Stand together. Support one another. And do not give up.

[intheflow]

1. They've also completely torpedoed civics classes.

It used to be mandatory to take a civics courses starting in elementary school, where we learned about how the government works. The problem has been with the so-called “originalists” who think the Constitution is sacred and inerrant as written, just like their bibles, and therefore scorned all amendments since the Bill of Rights. Can’t have any melting pot, DEI, uniting of The People, don’t’cha know. Gotta keep the little people divided as they grift We the People.

[misanthrope]

2. "Originalism" is asinine

Why create the amendment process if you consider it already inerrant?