cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/40066745
First Amendment: 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.
“What country before ever existed a century and half without a rebellion? And what country can preserve it’s liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is it’s natural manure.”
– Thomas Fucking Jefferson
If only there were unity among the people. The problem is that half of the US population is convinced the crooked tyrants are the ones protecting them from corruption and tyranny.
There. FTFY.
Well then I guess it is time for Civil War: Part Deux. And maybe this time, we let Sherman continue his march. Reconstruction was a mistake, and the US is now paying dearly for it some 150+ years after the fact. If we had stamped out the racists then, they wouldn’t be a stupidly large constituency of the redhats now.
Correction bolded.