And that the way they teach civics they make this such a fundamental assumption that thinking outside it is impossible The idea of scrapping the US Constitution and starting over with a new one is this shocking unsayable proposal
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We train kids on how to work within the system -- How do you win an election? How do you pass a bill? Even maybe how do you "realign" politics around a new party? -- but nothing more "extreme" than that Even though this country was *founded* on a damn revolution
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By deifying the Founding Fathers we both overlook all the flaws in what they did do and make doing it again seem impossible *They* tore up the papers their whole system was based on and just wrote a new one Why the hell can't we? Are they that much better than us?
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There are bigger questions than "How do you win an election" and "How do you pass a bill" "How do you dissolve a government and declare a new one? How do you write a constitution? How do you win a revolution with minimal bloodshed? How do you pull off a coup, if you have to?"
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The bizarre thing is that if you think this is an awful, monstrous thing to do, WE ALREADY DID IT The Brits at least have a more coherent reason to be kneejerk reactionaries -- their nonsense pageantry about the divine right of the monarch stretching back to damn medieval times
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If you think overthrowing an old regime for a new one is an evil thing to do, you should be bending the knee to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II And if you think a bunch of people writing new rules is absurd hubris, rip up that Constitution you worship because that's all it is
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The US may have been the *first* to do this system but that doesn't mean it does it *best* We still got all these slaveowner participation trophy poison pills permanently stuck in there, holding progress back in perpetuity.
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Slave rapist Thomas Jefferson himself WANTED the constitution to be completely scrapped and rewritten every 20 years. "Every constitution then... naturally expires at the end of 19 years. If it be enforced longer, it is an act of force, and not of right."
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Agreed. Checkout
@DoughnutEcon and friends for a general debunking of largely-accepted myths
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