The Declaration of Independence framed by flawed humans for other flawed humans. But it is the finest statement of what to strive for as an American. Trumpists don't believe all men (incl women) are created equal: deny half of America life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Really Americans?
Virtually no one is striving for it. Not in earnest. Not with courage. The document is worth nothing, *nothing* if it is not backed-up with ethics, objectivity, critical thinking, education, the *profound* urgency currently needed, and most of all – courage (both moral and physical courage).
When we treat ethnic peoples/women as equals and allow freedom to US citizens to live their lives as they need to, so long it lies within just laws(such as gay/ trans), we can argue over issues but we are living the Declaration. Some people do this. Is there courage to defend it? Good question.
There must be literally hundreds of sci-fi stories of societies trapped in some sort of delusional bubble of unquestioned “progenitor worship” - from nearly every other original Star Trek episode, through “Logan’s Run” to “The Silo” today.
As a student of history more importantly— I’m often struck that post WWII in our purposefully aware reconstruction of our defeated enemies we did try to avoid some of these constitutional mistakes.
“General Courtney Whitney, was tasked with drafting the new constitution in one week. Colonel Charles Kades oversaw the drafting process, and his staff, many of whom were influenced by the New Deal, …
Let's not lose sight the Constitution they wrote is exactly the document that trump and the nazis are using to their advantage. Any document that would a known criminal like trump to attain the highest office in the land and establish a dictatorship isn't worth defending, or keeping.
Agreed the flaws are now so apparent — those flaws in the document was shielded by a set of informal or “gentlemanly” behaviors, “norms” we’ve come to call them.
Kick those aside, ignore them as Trump and his minions do, and the validity of the written document falls away as they have little or no effective sanctions backing them up.
I thought that the Europeans recognized this flaw and why the European Union laws and regulations are so complicated. They did not rely on informal behavioral control but wrote out everything explicitly.
The founders were land-owning white male slave owners who wrote the Constitution to have a government by them and for them. That document is flawed in so many ways, and overtly racist. I don't know why people revere it. You can amend it all you want but you're starting at a disadvantage. #SECEDE
Perhaps we need to take a good hard look at it. Maybe we should keep a few of the good bits and overhaul the rest so it fits with where we’re headed as we evolve forward.
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What a crock of crap! They were men, like we are men. They made mistakes. We can fix them.
What shocks me often, is that we have YET to gift ourselves with some of the best progressive elements we gave to our defeated enemy!