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Projection? It's the "progressives" that don't believe in the Constitution, and in fact it was Woodrow Wilson, "the father of American progressivism" that coined the phrase, "living document" for the Constitution.
The Constitution is a contract between the States (the Parties to the Contract) which formed the Federal Government (the product of the Contract). It is not a "living document." A Contract cannot be changed by whim of interpretation. Would you like your employment contract to be claimed to be "a living document" by your employer, changeable at his discretion? I doubt it.
Joy Reid (like most MSNBC hosts) is an idiot!
In my opinion, he is the worst president in this country's history. All started when he signed the Federal Reserve into law.
Okeechobee County FL is NOT in the Bible Belt. Try spending some time in rural Oklahoma, Arkansas, Mississippi, or Alabama and then try to tell me my perception of rural America is wrong.
Florida is my main residence. I also have farms in rural Georgia, Tennessee and North Carolina, and have been to Alabama many times due to a friend. Never seen any of this that you spout. I seen more religious people in the urban areas than I have in the rural.
Here are some other good rural values: child abuse, spousal abuse, religious fundamentalism, racism, xenophobia, jingoism, authoritarianism, fear and loathing of anyone perceived to be different, willful ignorance, etc. Obviously not everyone in a rural area has those values, but they are widespread.
Heh, this sounds just like Chicago if you ask me. Last I looked, it wasn't the rural folks causing riots, destroying businesses and property because they didn't get their way.
Rural areas are a threat to the Left because they contribute to Right-wing electoral college wins and also because they tend to be more Right-wing. That's why the Left is doing its best to try and destroy all of the rural jobs to force everyone into the cities, where they know that, over time, the people will become and vote more Left-wing.
Actually its technological progress and the free market that is killing rural jobs. The economy in 2017 isn't the same as it was in 1950. Coal isn't coming back. Manufacturing has mostly been automated or shipped overseas. The plants that were the core of the small town economy 50 years ago are also gone for good. There is still a place for farming/ranching but unfortunately all that's left in many small towns is service industry jobs. Even those will probably start to dry up once aging baby boomers pass.
Because they're quite successful fighting anti gun legislation.
The whole "nobody took your guns" is like a would be robber that gets thrown down and thwarted by a potential victim and then saying "but I never stole anything"
Some people just don't get it. Reason why we still have our gun rights, is because people like me keep fighting for them. I fear though, in about 100 years after me and other people like me are dead, this country is going to implode with all of the nonsense and bs that both the extreme dems and republicans want to initiate.
IDK, most of my food is grown in California and all the tech is made here or at least based here. I don't see how states like Alabama and Mississippi add any value to my life. If they were to disappear, there would be no change to my life. Now, if the coastal states disappeared then the many people in those states would suffer. I agree that we need to co-exist and there my be aspects that we both depend on each-other for but I don't see it as equal.
FYI, those "farmers" in the heartland are big corporations based on the coasts that produce corn for cattle and high fructose corn syrup that goes into almost all processed foods. Stuff I try to avoid. The days of the family farm are dead and these farms are also heavily subsidized by the Federal Government. That means taxes from the 'liberals'.
Yes, a lot of farms are subsidized, which is why I said this goes both ways. The family farm is not dead, though. There are still plenty of them. I'll bet you three ways from Sunday that if you drew a line through the middle of California, that the lower half of the state wouldn't have anything nice to say about the upper half. It's gotten to the point of being totally toxic, and that part of the problem is coming mostly from the urban side. I've never seen so much disregard, contempt, and downright hatred from Americans directed to other Americans. It's disgusting. Not only that, but as another poster said, "That's how you get moar Trump." These liberal talking heads would do well to tone it down, but it seems they can't get past Hillary's loss long enough to see the damage they're doing.
Actually its technological progress and the free market that is killing rural jobs. The economy in 2017 isn't the same as it was in 1950. Coal isn't coming back. Manufacturing has mostly been automated or shipped overseas. The plants that were the core of the small town economy 50 years ago are also gone for good. There is still a place for farming/ranching but unfortunately all that's left in many small towns is service industry jobs. Even those will probably start to dry up once aging baby boomers pass.
And it is like this all over the world, not just the US.
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