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We have rights in there, but those rights are infringed upon a lot. First and Second amendments are heavily infringed. What's "Freedom of speech" these days? You get silenced, cancelled and all sorts of shit. 2nd amendment don't even get me started in CA, can't concealed carry, can't open carry, basically can't fucking carry.

Those rights sound more like privileges most of the time.

https://thenationalpulse.com/2021/09/06/national-archives-places-harmful-language-alert-on-u-s-constitution-page/

National Archives Places ‘Harmful Language Alert’ on Page Hosting U.S. Constitution.

There's some other cases that are coming up, the EPA one was probably more important and Roe v. Wade

These cases are about how much the Legislature can pawn off on Administrative Departments, allowing them to make rules under the rubric of the Executive.

If SCOTUS tightens the reigns on that, it is the best thing ever to happen to control the Administrative/Deep State.

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2022/07/06/reining_in_the_fourth_branch_of_government____147845.html

The Constitution provides for three branches of government, sharing sovereign power. In fact, we have a fourth branch, the sprawling administrative bureaucracies.

So what can we do short of running for congress ourselves? Do we start a grassroots movement? Start a PAC? Form a political party?

And how would we unwind some of these federally created offices? "Abolish the IRS" is a good slogan for a t-shirt but in reality l, you would need a ten year plan to wind down / reduce the size of government to get it back to where the founders intended it to be.

Absent that you scrap the whole system and start over...

But I'd like to think that the system is not so irreparably broken that it cannot be fixed.

I honestly think part of it is many (myself included) are too busy with day to day life to do anything beyond venting on an anonymous internet forum.

I don't have the resources, time or connections to mount a political campaign although I have considered it from time to time.

GreaterNYCDude says

But I'd like to think that the system is not so irreparably broken that it cannot be fixed.

Me too. But you'll never get the pensioners to give up their pension or the fat asses to give up their seat.

Seems like the best we can hope for is to avoid the system as much as possible and live a happy life.

Amendment I
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

Let's check the scorecard on this one:

They federal government has not made any laws establishing a national religion.
However, they HAVE prohibited free exercise thereof.

They have not abridged freedom of speech / press directly.
The allowance of the use of propaganda and the apparent collusion to control the narrative has undermined the presses independence.

Even the right to assemble has been abridged. You can protest, but in many cases, you are supposed to pull a permit to do so.

Even protests are coopted, from Jan 6 to BLM. All it takes is a small band of idiots to shift the focus away from the main message. When was the last time a mass protest resulted in governmental action and REAL change? Perhaps the Civil Rights protests of the 60s? I can't think of any since.

It seems to me, as a practical matter, the average American doesn't care much, so far as I can tell. They get up, work, come home, watch some mindless TV, eat, sleep, then repeat. Even for myself, I can sit here and ruminate from behind a keyboard, but I'm not out in the street, nor am I "petitioning for a redress of grievances" because frankly, things in my world are good. I have job that allows me to pay my bills and save a bit for retirement, a good family, and a network of friends. I'm active in my church and other organizations that keep me busy.

As much as there is clearly room for improvement, and the erosion of constitutional rights is concerning, a few dozen people on an internet forum aren't exactly going to change things. The federal government is big, bloated and well beyond the limited federal government our founding fathers had intended... but how to change that, I haven't a clue.

Patrick says

The Constitution isn't enforced. The Soviets had a WONDERFUL Constitution.

https://unionofsovietsovereignrepublics.fandom.com/wiki/Constitution_of_the_USSR/The_Constitution

But it wasn't enforced. Who gives a shit if we have a Constitution? It's simply ignored. It's just a goddamned piece of paper.

richwicks says

But it wasn't enforced. Who gives a shit if we have a Constitution? It's simply ignored. It's just a goddamned piece of paper.

yeah I've seen that in Bay County with rampant cases of false arrests and malicious prosecution

check out on Youtube the Burnie Thompson Show... he went to Panama City commissioners meeting about another false arrest and imprisonment ...

a police officer pulls someone over and sees an Rx bottle in the glove compartment when it is opened and falsely testified that the name on the bottle was scratched off (even though the cop's camera video shows different).

The driver spent one night in jail and there were no charges filed.

Also look up Zachary Wester ...he is the prime example as far as planting drugs and false arrests... Wester was eventually was nabbed by an undercover from Florida Dept of Law Enforcement (likely in a public corruption set up or sting)..

Wester's partner in crime now is a detective in Panama City :-(

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Patrick says

Their playbook is Animal Farm. All of this especially equal protection and due process are victims of cancel culture.

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This is why we have the Bill of Rights, and representatives rather than direct democraccy.

Patrick says

This is why we have the Bill of Rights, and representatives rather than direct democraccy.

Yeah and a republic. Democracy on it's own is mob rule.

https://twitter.com/ChestyPullerGst/status/1782783716936327622

Patrick says

https://twitter.com/ChestyPullerGst/status/1782783716936327622

Wow. If that is real, a judge that thinks the Constitution does not apply is nothing but a tyrant and needs to be removed.

HeadSet says

Patrick says

https://twitter.com/ChestyPullerGst/status/1782783716936327622

Wow. If that is real, a judge that thinks the Constitution does not apply is nothing but a tyrant and needs to be removed.

She's Acting Justice of the New York Supreme Court, too. She's probably doing this for politicking to become full Justice.

This will automatically win an appeal. But nothing will happen to her.

It is often said the second foreign occupied fraternal twin of Washington DC is New York. Whatever DC wants, DC gets from the incestuous relationship. The foreign occupied foreign city state of Washington DC has a Globalist flag, its own separate legal system, and its own so called Constitution, and it ain't the one they administer for the Republic.

What say you, they administer our Constitution FOR us? Well, that explains a lot, doesn't it.

Patrick says

https://twitter.com/ChestyPullerGst/status/1782783716936327622