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Originally Posted by bUU
Fourteenth Amendment:
No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws. ... The Congress shall have power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article.
Of course, when Trump says, "Make America Great Again" it begs the question about when Trump thought America was great. Clearly it must be some point before women and people of color got to vote, so it makes sense that his supporters would seek to undo 150 years of progress, make women live again as chattel, return African Americans to slavery in some form, etc., and ignore the fact that the Fourteenth Amendment was passed after the Tenth and changed the nature of the republic into a definitively federal republic.
Yes, there is no surprise that the rightists are trying to re-fight the Civil War. What they want lost that war, and they've been bitter about how things have gotten better for those less fortunate in society ever since.
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Your biased comment begs for a response.
I don't know how old, or young you are, but, having been on earth for 77(going on 78) years, I have seen so much change in this country, and much of it bad, especially the last forty some odd years.
I certainly remember when America was great.
I lived it, and the greatness was not due to white superiority , nor black suppression, or eliminating women's rights.
The great America I remember was not that long ago.
One would only have to go back to the mid fifties to early sixties to feel the country was great.
Today, our society, and country is a mess.
Technology is to blame for much of it.
Back in the decade of mid fifties to mid sixties I speak of, things were easier.
Leaders in our country were respected.
Values were much different then, compared to today.
Police were respected as protectors of the people, not the enemy.
People valued personal contact with one another, not relying on some keyboard and touchscreen to make their daily human contact.
That will never change now, because we live in a different time.
There are many things that made America great back then.
During WWII, people gave of themselves for the betterment of the country.
Sadly that love of country is lost, perhaps forever.
There is no country pride any longer.
There seems to be no clear line between right and wrong.
We have moved to the point where it doesn't matter who we elect as the leader of our country.
We have stooped so low as a nation, and our moral character has dwindled down to the fact that possibly electing a person who could very well be spending time in jail, matters very little to us.
Yes, I knew America when it was great, and I can't blame Trump for wanting to see that again, but the reality is, not he, or anyone else will ever be capable of achieving that goal.
There is an old saying, "you can never go back", and that is the point in time we are faced with today.
Bob.
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