#constitutional equality
Explore tagged Tumblr posts
indizombie · 2 years ago
Quote
Various surveys have confirmed that the other backward classes, Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes are over-represented in the proportion of poor. The forward caste groups are considerably better off as a class or group, even if there are poor individuals amongst them. Therefore, the reservation has always dealt with class poverty. By determining a class on the basis of economic criteria – income below Rs 8 lakh per annum of a family or individual – the EWS quota, ex facie, infringes the principles of constitutional equality and renders the concept of reservation, as known to the Indian Constitution, virtually unrecognisable. In short, EWS is ambiguous, arbitrary and alien to the established principles of constitutional equality.
Manuraj Shunmugasundaram, ‘EWS judgment is a setback to social justice, India’s constitutional scheme’, Indian Express
3 notes · View notes
lgbtally4ever · 4 months ago
Text
Tumblr media
If you reply to my posts, I’m going to assume you, too, are a fan of BL, and/or a proponent for gay rights, and/or a Liberal, who believes in equality for everyone.
Tumblr media Tumblr media Tumblr media Tumblr media Tumblr media Tumblr media Tumblr media Tumblr media Tumblr media
MAGA: KEEP YOUR CULT-BASED DELUSIONS TO YOURSELF
64 notes · View notes
dosesofcommonsense · 27 days ago
Text
Tumblr media
If Trump’s going to end the Oligarch’s democracy and restore the Constitutional Republic that’s by the people and for the scarecrow, then I’m all for it.
43 notes · View notes
eugenedebs1920 · 1 day ago
Text
This kind of sh*t is sad, it’s maddening, it’s irritating and it shows the effects of gerrymandering.
Margery Transhater Green will be in congress FOREVER, unless she “aspires” for a change (maybe grand wizard of the KKK? 🤷‍♂️) She is sofa king embarrassing!!! She’s not even my representative and I’m utterly embarrassed and disgusted with her behavior and rhetoric.
Remember when she was going off on Fauci!? That was this year I think, maybe 2023. “MR. Fauci, because you’re not a doctor to me..” Lol! It’s like, listen here Hateful Helen, this man was creating vaccines and saving lives when you were blowing your Sunday school teacher in middle school. I believe she said he should be charged as a war criminal!? What!? Because you had to cover that Neanderthal mug of yours!? Everyone won with that!
Then there’s Mace…. She is SO desperate for attention. It’s pathetic. She’s basically jumping up and down with her hand raised every time what seems like a reporter is near. I heard she gave An interview to a server on accident! Just kidding. I made that sh*t up 🤣 If they can just make stuff up why can’t we!? I could see it tho…
Just cuz im trashing on Stepford wives here, we’ll throw in Bobert too. It’s like, C’mon CO!! You’re so friggin sweet how do you elect this raunchy racist!? She is a disgrace to the state of Colorado (my home state if you weren’t picking up on my allegiance there) There are some rural ass bumf*ck parts of CO, but that’s no excuse to support Lucky Lefty Beetlejuice Borbert. Remember that State of the Union when here and Amud 1 (oldest Neanderthal remains found 😆) were acting like they were at parent teacher conferences in middle school. It’s like, listen up ladies!! This is the most powerful person on the planet, you’re up for reelection every 2 years!
That the fate the rest of us suffer with this hyper gerrymandering. Not to mention all the disenfranchised, marginalized voters too!
There needs to be a change in how elections are funded. There needs to be a binding ethics code with SCOTUS. The drawing of districts needs to be addressed. Legislators conduct and obstructionism needs an overhaul.
And it ain’t happening any time soon because somehow this mutinous maga mutation has all three branches. WTF!?
Anyway. They suck! Good for that person for not backing down, but not walking in to their trap. It’s very brave of them.
20 notes · View notes
alwaysbewoke · 9 months ago
Text
Tumblr media Tumblr media
58 notes · View notes
freedomrobot · 1 year ago
Text
Letter to Congress 07-29-23
Americans Are Aware!
Tumblr media
266 notes · View notes
serpentface · 5 months ago
Text
FAMILY TITLES AMONG THE HILL TRIBES
(ft. various linguistic notes and tangents)
In-universe Brakul’s self-given title of ‘Red-Dog’ is Brakul 'ne-Dainh' in his native language (Bict-Urbinnas dialect of the Highland language group) and Brakul 'Chin-Reyla' in Wardi. Ne-Dainh/Chin-Reyla is not something he treats as or considers an actual surname or identity, just a self-styled nickname. He already has a title.
Family names/surnames are not a native practice among the Hill Tribes (though some clans or individual families have adopted this practice), and all traditionally use titles that designate immediate ancestry, clan and tribe. These full titles are officially given when one comes of age and are spoken aloud in ceremony (with the entire direct male and female lines listed by name, with most traditions expecting 12 generations of each being named).
The function is to cement one’s sense of place in the world, and their place in a direct ancestral line, which puts the person under the full watch and guidance of their ancestors. It's also a critical method of recording lineage- the long held practice of each person memorizing at least 24 total direct ancestors allows for very long, largely accurate records of family history to be kept, with some people able to trace their ancestry all the way back to initial settlement of the Highlands (or even beyond).
Brakul’s full title is:
“Brakul virsum Kuligan et Borunil an Briyonis ne-Taig an Bict-Urbinnas”
Which dead literally translates to “Brakul son of Kuligan and Borunil of the Foothills (of) Red-Cattle, of the North (Urbin/Erubin) River Valley” but has a much richer meaning in the original language.
"BRAKUL VIRSUM KULIGAN ET BORUNIL"
The actual meaning here is closer to ‘Brakul, son of Kuligan and his father’s fathers, and Borunil and her mother’s mothers’.
“Virsum” means ‘child (son/daughter) of’ (the gender is contextual), but implies the person’s status as a descendant of a full male and female line of ancestors. A different word is used if you’re just saying ‘I’m so and so’s son”. The title describes him as a son of his father Kuligan and of Kuligan’s male line, and of his mother Borunil and Borunil's female line.
All ancestors (within this particular system of kinship, divided into one direct male line from the father and one direct female line from the mother, and not including husbands from the female line or wives from the male line) are invoked and credited with the word ‘virsum’. Speaking it as part of the personal title is part of the routine and necessary honoring of one’s ancestors, who watch over their descendants from the afterlife and can temporarily return to the land to guide and protect (and sometimes punish, or teach sharp lessons to) the living.
"AN BRIYONIS NE-TAIG"
The actual meaning here would be understood as ‘clan/people of the foothills where cattle are lit red by the setting sun'.
‘Briyonis’ is the word for ‘foothill’, citing his clan’s specific location being the foothills that form the slopes of the north Urbin river valley. He is of a lesser clan within the powerful North Urbin River tribe. His clan benefits from close affiliation to their more powerful ruling clans located directly in the river valley, which grants them access to a greater variety of cultivated foods, but their actual position in the foothills still renders them predominantly reliant on cattle for subsistence. Clan names referencing cattle or horses are very common, given their frequent centrality to life.
The ‘ne-Taig’ literally means ‘red cattle’, but the ‘ne’ color word for red specifically invokes shades of red seen in and cast by a rising/setting sun. This red cast is culturally regarded as a unique beauty and evocative (and part of the name) of the solar god Hraighne. The foothills his clan is physically located on are a vantage point from which the western horizon is not fully obscured by mountains, and they experience very striking sunsets and are directly touched by the light. This is fairly unique to this location, and is invoked in the clan name and identity. ‘Ne-Taig’ here suggests a visual of grazing cattle illuminated red by the sun as it crosses the horizon.
‘Ne-Dainh’ carries the same implication, a dog illuminated red by setting sunlight. The Wardi language does not have a comparable word for a sunlit red and ‘Chin-Reyla’ really does just mean ‘(orangeish) red dog’ (‘reyla’ is specific to orangey-red colors, which is the closest match he could get. There’s no way to impart the meaning of ‘sunlit-red dog’ in Wardi that is non-clunky enough to be appropriate for a name).
"AN BICT-URBINNAS"
‘an Bict-Urbinnas’ is fairly simple, Bict means ‘north’, and 'Urbin' is the name of the specific river that stems from a northern and eastern tributary. This river has a very ancient name (or a derivative of one) that predates settlement by the Hill Tribes, and its exact meaning is lost.
The root -(n)nas designates a river valley, but has strong implications of being an esteemed and bountiful place, rather than solely a literal geographical descriptor (as the river valleys are centers of power and trade in the highlands). It may be a loanword from the Wardi language family, as its usage is VERY similar in form and function to the Wardi -(n)nos, which also suggests a place of esteem and bounty (more specifically having connotations of a kingdom).
’An’ literally means ‘of’, but in the specific sense of describing the place and identity of a collection of people. ‘an Bict Urbinnas’ would be understood in speech as ‘of the north Urbin River Valley (people)’. The clans historically settled in and around the valley of the North Urbin River form the totality of the Bict-Urbinnas tribe.
The ‘Urbin’ word predates the contemporary Wardi name ‘Erubin’ for the river, the latter of which invokes the semi-mythological founding figure Erub, who himself was of a Wardi tribe located downriver to the south of the Highlands. The real historically extant ‘Erub’ was most likely named Urub after the river, with his cited name shifting over the centuries in folklore, and the Wardi name for the river shifting with it.
‘Erubin’ as a corruption of ‘Urbin’ functions very well in Wardi language due to ‘-bi/bin’ denoting something as a ‘gift’, usually in a more metaphorical sense. ‘Erubin’ is understood as meaning ‘(The river that is) Erub’s gift’, and the Erubin/Urbin river is a key tributary to the much larger Black river, one of the key rivers that feeds the region's wetter and more fertile west. This 'gift' meaning also occurs in the name of the southeastern Imperial Wardi city-state Erubinnos, which is understood as meaning ’((The kingdom that is) Erub’s gift’. He is considered to have conquered and taken the land (from the core city's actual founders, the Wogan people) and established a kingdom there in the early days of warring Wardi tribal monarchies.
#Just dropping this randomly because it's a pretty complete lore dump in my notes app#Family names are a big fucking deal in the Wardi cultural sphere and not having one is associated with being a bastard or otherwise#displaced or unwanted. If pressed Brakul either fully lies and says 'ne-Dainh' (which will just come off as 'oh it's some foreign name')#Or lists his actual title (not a family name but equally important). Sometimes listing all 24 generations if he's particularly annoyed.#It's only strictly necessary to memorize 12 ancestors in each line but it's considered good practice to be able#to cite associated non-direct ancestor husbands/wives/siblings/etc. That's where the tattoos as a mnemonic device comes in#It's easy to memorize 24 ancestors but very difficult to memorize 24 ancestors and at least some of their family members#And remembering and honoring the dead by name is of great importance- both puts you under the protection of more#ancestors (including non-direct ones) and ensures the dead's status in the afterlife is secure (it's believed that fully forgotten#dead leave the celestial fields and can no longer directly intercede with the living- though with some additional nuances to what#constitutes being fully forgotten)#Venerating and remembering the dead is a huge focus of cultural practice and additional methods are used to safeguard#ancestors (and other honored dead without descendants) whose names have been forgotten. There's one yearly holiday focused entirely on#the nameless dead where they are invoked and honored via little straw dolls that are burnt in bonfires high in the mountains so the#smoke is sent up to the Fields. It takes weeks of preparation and tens (maybe hundreds idk I'm bad with scale) of thousands of#dolls will be made each year across the Highlands for this purpose. Honoring them with effigy even without name is usually#considered enough to safeguard their afterlife for at least another year.#Also yeah kinship systems among the Hill Tribes (and very similarly among the Finns) follow a male line/female line system#Only father's father's fathers (...) and mother's mother's mothers (...) are considered direct ancestors (though all four grandparents#are sometimes honored as ancestors even if only two are considered DIRECT ancestral kin- this tradition varies)#Inheritance systems are somewhat matrilineal given that a wife is considered the owner and arbiter of property and a husband is#its protector and active manager. If a man and woman from different clans (or tribes) marry any children will be considered to be of#the clan/tribe of whichever spouse does NOT relocate in marriage.#Whether the husband moves in with the wife or the wife moves in with the husband is dependent on an arbitration process#and the husband (and his family) being able to provide a bride price (which is somewhat of a payment for the land/property#the wife's mother will be passing down to the new husband's management should he move in- and displays his ability to care#for and provide valued assets. A man who can provide a bride price tends to receive greater respect)#This is most commonly going to be livestock (and almost ubiquitously includes a single cattle to be butchered for the wedding feast)#But can include other valuables or assets like land or grain/seeds or etc. There is no intra-Highlands monetary system and the internal#economy is built on trade. So Imperial Wardi currency is mostly useless but is sometimes given in marriages between clans with strong
41 notes · View notes
heart2heartroses2u · 9 months ago
Text
The truth finally comes out.. now you know who to really blame for our border crisis… gotta love it 🥰
21 notes · View notes
official-lucifers-child · 2 years ago
Text
THE FIRST AMENDMENT DOES NOT PROTECT YOU FROM PRIVATE COMPANIES OR INDIVIDUALS.
THE RIGHT TO FREE SPEECH AND PRESS PROTECTS YOU FROM THE GOVERNMENT. ONLY THE GOVERNMENT. IF AN INDIVIDUAL MUTES YOUR POST OR COMMENT OR TALKS OVER YOU, THAT IS NOT AN INFRINGEMENT ON YOUR RIGHT TO FREE SPEECH. THAT IS JUST AN INDIVIDUAL. IF A GOVERNMENT ENTITY MUTES YOUR POST OR COMMENT OR DOES NOT ALLOW YOU TO SPEAK, THAT IS AN INFRINGEMENT ON YOUR RIGHT TO FREE SPEECH UNLESS THEY HAVE DEEMED THAT YOUR WORDS WERE INCITING VIOLENCE, IN WHICH CASE THEIR DUTY TO PROTECT THE MASSES OVERRULES YOUR INDIVIDUAL RIGHT TO FREE SPEECH, BECAUSE VIOLENCE IS NOT A PROTECTED SPEECH.
stop crying wolf when twitter bans your account or your reddit post is taken down. that’s not infringing upon your right to free speech, that is a PRIVATE company exercising THEIR right to cultivate their platform as they see fit.
anyway.
129 notes · View notes
whenweallvote · 8 months ago
Photo
Tumblr media
“Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of sex.”
Today in 1972, the U.S. Senate passed the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA), sending the legislation to the states for ratification. For an amendment to officially become part of the U.S. Constitution, at least three-fourths of the states must vote to adopt it. 
In January 2020, Virginia became the 38th state to ratify the ERA — and members of the Congressional Caucus for the ERA are still working to officially recognize and publish it as the 28th Amendment.
🎨: Refinery29
13 notes · View notes
abwatt · 4 months ago
Text
The American Bar Association's Resolution #601, which passed yesterday during their annual business meeting, says that their membership is of the opinion that the Equal Rights Amendment a) should now be certified as the 28th Amendment to the US Constitution, and b) that Congress and the states should now work to enforce this by appropriate legislation.
I wrote to my Congressman and my Senators today about this. I urged them to ask the National Archivist to certify the 28th Amendment (the ERA) and to make Congress and the states begin to enforce it by appropriate legislation.
5 notes · View notes
dreaminginthedeepsouth · 7 months ago
Text
Tumblr media
Kevin Necessary
* * * *
LETTERS FROM AN AMERICAN
April 25, 2024
HEATHER COX RICHARDSON
APR 26, 2024
“I am in shock that a lawyer stood in the U.S. Supreme Court and said that a president could assassinate his political opponent and it would be immune as ‘an official act,’” lawyer Marc Elias, whose firm defends democratic election laws, wrote today on social media. He added: “I am in despair that several Justices seemed to think this answer made perfect sense.” 
Elias was referring to the argument of Trump’s lawyer before the Supreme Court today that it could indeed be an “official act” for which a president should be immune from criminal prosecution if “the president decides that his rival is a corrupt person and he orders the military or orders someone to assassinate him.”
The Supreme Court today heard close to three hours of oral argument over Trump v. United States, which concerns former president Trump’s claim of absolute immunity from criminal charges for “official acts”: in this case, his attempt to overturn the lawful results of the 2020 presidential election and to stay in office against the will of the voters. 
That is, like the authoritarian leaders he admires, Trump tried to steal the 2020 presidential election and seize the presidency. Sometimes I worry that the enormity of that crime against our democracy is becoming normalized. 
It was not normalized by grand jury members who reviewed the evidence of that effort; they indicted Trump in August 2023 on four counts. But Trump responded by claiming that a president cannot be prosecuted for official acts and that a former president cannot be prosecuted unless the House of Representatives has impeached him and the Senate convicted him. 
Justice Clarence Thomas, whose wife, Ginni, participated in that effort, did not recuse himself from today’s hearing, and the court did not object to his presence.
Ruth Marcus of the Washington Post noted that the justices on the court seemed to be weighing “which poses the greater risk—putting a criminal president above the law or hamstringing noncriminal presidents with the risk of frivolous or vindictive prosecutions brought by their successors.” 
The liberals on the court focused on the former—after all, the case is about whether Trump should answer to criminal indictments for trying to overturn our democracy. Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson noted: “If someone with those kinds of powers, the most powerful person in the world with the greatest amount of authority, could go into office knowing that there would be no potential penalty for committing crimes, I’m trying to understand what the disincentive is from turning the Oval Office into, you know, the seat of criminal activity in this country.”
In contrast, the right-wing justices focused on the risk of vindictive prosecutions, which has been the heart of Trump’s argument for complete immunity. Trump insists that without immunity, a president will be afraid to make controversial decisions out of fear of later prosecution. Such a lack of immunity would destroy the presidency, he has argued, claiming that he is simply trying to protect the office. 
And yet he is the first of 45 presidents to be charged with a crime, and no previous president made any claim of immunity.
Nonetheless, the right-wing justices made it clear they were more interested in the future than in the present. In their comments they stayed far away from Trump and focused instead on presidents in the past and the future. (Conservative judge Michael Luttig noted: “The Court and the parties discussed everything but the specific question presented.”)
Justice Neil Gorsuch said: “I’m not concerned about this case, but I am concerned about future uses of the criminal law to target political opponents based on accusations about their motives.” Justice Samuel Alito tried to turn the argument for accountability upside down by suggesting that complete immunity would be more likely to encourage presidents to leave office, because if a president knew they could be prosecuted for crimes, they would be less likely to leave peacefully. 
Indeed, Marcus wrote: “The conservative justices’ professed concerns over the implications of their rulings for imaginary future presidents, in imaginary future proceedings, seemed more important to them than bringing Trump to justice.” Constitutional law professor Anthony Michael Kreis was more concrete in his reaction; he found it “[u]nbelievable that Supreme Court justices who see forgiving student loans, mandating vaccines, and regulating climate change as a slippery slope toward tyranny were not clear-eyed on questions of whether a president could execute citizens or stage a coup without being prosecuted.”
The court’s decision will likely take weeks and thus will delay Trump’s trial for crimes committed in his attempt to overturn the results of the 2020 election, likely until after the 2024 election. On Monday, April 22, former representative Liz Cheney (R-WY), who served as vice chair of the House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the U.S. Capitol, called out Trump’s attacks on the legal system and delays to avoid accountability. In a New York Times op-ed, Cheney reminded the justices that delay would mean that the American people would not get to hear the testimony and evidence Special Counsel Jack Smith has uncovered before the 2024 election. 
“It cannot be that a president of the United States can attempt to steal an election and seize power but our justice system is incapable of bringing him to trial before the next election four years later,” she wrote.
And yet, here we are. 
Voters’ right to know what a candidate for president did to overthrow the will of the people in a previous election is at stake in today’s arguments. But so is the rule of law on which our democracy stands. The rule of law means that laws are made according to established procedures rather than a leader’s dictates, and that they are reasonable. Laws are enforced equally. No one is above the law, and everyone has an obligation to obey the law. 
As Justice Elena Kagan noted today: “The framers did not put an immunity clause into the Constitution. They knew how to; there were immunity clauses in some state constitutions. They didn’t provide immunity to the president. And, you know—not so surprising—they were reacting against a monarch who claimed to be above the law. Wasn’t the whole point that the president was not a monarch and the president was not supposed to be above the law?”
Indeed.
“[W]here, say some, is the King of America?” Thomas Paine wrote in Common Sense, the 1776 pamphlet that convinced British colonists in North America to cut ties with their king and start a new nation. “[I]n America the law is king. For as in absolute governments the King is law, so in free countries the law ought to be king; and there ought to be no other.”
LETTERS FROM AN AMERICAN
HEATHER COX RICHARDSON
5 notes · View notes
pulsar-1919 · 1 year ago
Text
Tumblr media Tumblr media
I've been waiting to vote this fucking thing out of the constitution since I learned of it's existence in history class, it better go ahead. I, for one, would love to debate anyone who thinks this shite belongs in the 21st century
15 notes · View notes
all-socialism-is-democratic · 8 months ago
Text
Tumblr media
6 notes · View notes
eugenedebs1920 · 5 days ago
Text
If you can’t win. Cheat! That seems to be the platform for the once, Grand Ol Party. That party died with Eisenhower. Nixon was a paranoid, racist criminal, who would do what it took to keep power. The “Reagan Revolution” was nothing more than a script written for a literal actor to do the bidding of Wall Street and big banks. W. Bush was more of the same , but at least he was a war hero. H.W. Bush was the least qualified candidate for president until his maga successor would stumble into the oval office 16 years later.
The Republican Party is the same racist fucks that use to head the Democratic Party before the 1964 Civil Rights Act. It’s not blue or red, Democrat or Republican. It’s conservative v liberal. The conservative holding on to “the good ol days”. Yea!? What were those!? When you could treat a person of color like a second class citizen and all your other white friends would smile with approval. Tradition. What tradition is that conservatives?! Do we need to go farther back than that?! How bout when you could own another human being and make him do the work while you sat around and reaped the rewards? If that boy get outta line he’ll be gettin the whip! Fucking disgusting! Conservative. What the fuck you conserving!? Sure ain’t morality! Sure ain’t the rule of law! Sure ain’t the planet! Sure ain’t “family values”! Sure ain’t the Constitution, or our democracy, or our institutions, the courts, the balance of power, ethics, honor, dignity, pride! WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU CONSERVING!?!? Because from where I’m standing, it’s hate. Because from where I’m standing, it’s voter suppression. Because from where I’m standing it’s corruption. Just like Reconstruction, just like the Jim Crow south, same shit. Different time. Same assholes!
Prove me wrong……
I’m almost as pissed At liberals as conservatives! (Not really) Do you want to make a change for good in this world?! Do you want to see equality as the law of the land!? Do you want acceptance and love to be the norm!? Where everyone is taken care of, we’re kind to those we know, and those we don’t. A place where corporate greed isn’t the main itinerary. Where being well educated is achievable to all Americans regardless of socioeconomic status? Do you want to live in a country where the bottom 50% of earners make more than 3% of the wealth?! Do you want fair banking and lending practices? A clean environment to live in, to be able to buy a house, raise a family, in a nation where the air is safe to breathe, where the water is safe to drink, where you don’t have to worry if your kid is going to get shot up at school?! Do you want civil rights, woman’s rights, LGBTQ rights, human rights, elderly protection, environmental protection, liberty, freedom, the right to pursue happiness?! Is that something you would like?!
Then toughen the fuck up! Quit this cancel culture, delicate snowflake bullshit! We’re not woke!!! We’re liberals!. The racist are coming with torches to lynch a motha fucker, you gunna stand up and fight, or curl up in a ball and cry!? The fuckin rules have been thrown out long ago. These pricks DONT FUCKING CARE! They will burn this shit down and wait for us to put it out with our liberal tears. Fuck that! If they’re going to burn this shit down we’re locking them In the fucking building while it burns to the ground. The gloves are off. No more going in to the boxing ring holding true to the sport while our opponent has a baseball bat and is ready to swing for the fences at us.
The high road has got us nowhere but low. So let’s stay there. If they’re want to play dirty and skirt the rules, so can we. If we don’t! And fuckin soon! They’ll be nothing left to fight for.
12 notes · View notes
aurianneor · 5 months ago
Text
Tumblr media
There is a lack of democracy, justice and unity in the United States.
The choice is limited: Biden or Trump.
People who vote for Joe Biden are choosing a country where citizens co-exist with equal rights. People who vote for Trump are choosing a country where people co-exist but with unequal access to the law. For his voters, Donald Trump, despite all his imperfections, will re-establish in law inequalities considered natural.
From the outset, the United States has been divided into three ideological blocs. An inclusive Northeast, where everyone had equal rights, with a strong welfare state that looked after those most in need. This was hygienism, the “Nanny State”. A libertarian West where people are equal, with the state reduced to a minimum. The value of freedom is essentially linked to private property: I do what I want with what belongs to me. A Southeast with a strong state that interferes in citizens’ private lives and believes that there are natural inequalities. For them, the law must reflect these inequalities.
In 1776, at the time of Independence, the priority of the Founding Fathers was to get rid of the sovereign, the King of England. This oppressor used force. A union was needed to overthrow him. This union was the priority for 150 years. The U.S. Constitution gave citizens rights to please the Northeast (e.g., equality before the law), freedoms to please the West (e.g., having a gun) and inequalities to please the Southeast (e.g., a black man voted 3/4 as much as a white man). A union of states has been created, not a union of peoples.
The states are sovereign, not the people. It’s high time to change this constitution and give democracy to the United States of America.
In the mid-19th century, massive immigration to the United States began. Immigrants arrived in the Northeast, where the Welfare State was in place. They were fleeing autocracies and seeking rights. The Northeast was more populous than the Southeast. Equal rights made the Northeast richer, because it gave anyone the opportunity to contribute to innovation. The North created cotton-picking machines. This challenged slavery in the Southeast. The Southeast took up arms because they rejected these laws considered unnatural. The South thus betrayed the Constitution by rebelling. The American West, which morally condemned the South, made an alliance with the Northeast. The Southeast lost after a terrible war (the Civil War). There was never any justice: there was no act that recognized that the South had done anything unacceptable. There was no moral condemnation. The South-East rewrote history, saying that they were right and that if they hadn’t succeeded it was only a question of strength. They built an imaginary world in which they were victims. The union was lost. There was no democracy: it was a union of states. Each state is represented unequally, not according to population. A citizen’s vote carries more or less weight depending on the state in which he or she votes. Access to the vote differs from one state to another.
What corresponds to the Democrats today is an alliance of the Northeast and the West, which have profound political differences, particularly on the importance and role of the State. The Northeast wants a state that takes care of people’s daily lives, while the West wants a minimalist state. There is no united bloc against the South-East. This North versus South bloc is now found in every state. There is now a city (Democrat) versus country (Republican) bloc.
The Trump vote is an originalist vote, i.e. a vote that recognizes inequalities as natural and written in the constitution. Faced with this bloc, a leader who imposes a new constitution to establish true democracy in the United States is needed, who convinces of the importance of equality before the law and who convinces Americans of the importance of unity, it is necessary to live together. Democracy, justice and unity.
Joe Biden is an old man. He doesn’t have the energy for change. The same questions and issues are still there four years after he took office. He needs to retire.
There are many talented Democrats who can bring together the ideologies of the Northeast and the West: California Governor Gavin Newsom or Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren, for example.
Trump’s camp stands up with force. We need an energetic leader who knows how to convince.
Rather than opposing two candidates who must bring together different ideologies, a more direct democracy should be introduced so that citizens can express their opinions on a project-by-project basis. When will we see a referendum based on popular initiative, with access to the vote for all, and where every vote counts in the same way?
Why federalism has become risky for American democracy: https://www.brookings.edu/articles/why-federalism-has-become-risky-for-american-democracy/
The Myth of Reconstruction – PBS: https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/reconstruction-myth/
New Rule: No National Divorce! | Real Time with Bill Maher (HBO): https://youtu.be/OJAbWwTrhUI?si=8XWA8nbMzXZ7EFsn
youtube
Translated with DeepL.com
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Seulement deux candidats: https://www.aurianneor.org/seulement-deux-candidats/
Having the majority of political power without the majority of votes: https://www.aurianneor.org/having-the-majority-of-political-power-without-the-majority-of-votes/
Trump’s shadows: https://www.aurianneor.org/trumps-shadows-elections-the-electoral-college/
Will you get what you expect from Trump? Chaos is unpredictable: https://www.aurianneor.org/will-you-get-what-you-expect-from-trump-chaos-is-unpredictable/
Oui au Référendum d’initiative populaire: https://www.aurianneor.org/oui-au-referendum-dinitiative-populaire-petition/
Police and justice for the people: https://www.aurianneor.org/police-and-justice-for-the-people/
Freedom and coexistence: https://www.aurianneor.org/freedom-and-coexistence/
Législatives 2024: choisir la gauche ou la droite.: https://www.aurianneor.org/legislatives-2024-choisir-la-gauche-ou-la-droite/
2024 UK general election: choosing the Right or the Left.: https://www.aurianneor.org/2024-uk-general-election-choosing-the-right-or-the-left/
Electing is not voting: https://www.aurianneor.org/electing-is-not-voting-oui-au-referendum/
3 notes · View notes