Mark Small

RUSSELL STWALLEY says we need 2 bring country back in line due 2 straying fr Constitution & what “founders” intended. He wants to end endless wars, impose term limits for the House and Senate and would “drain the swamp.” 24/40

MY REPLY: The Framers considered - and rejected - term limits. If you impose term limits, you stray from the intent of the”founders.” 25/40

On several main themes run amongst my opponents: 1) PROTECT THE CONSTITUTION: It seems these candidates believe our courts should interpret Constitution consistent w/original intent. Sounds like a good idea except you can’t find that intent. 26/40

Delegates to the 1787 Convention left no records of their proceedings and few records exist from state ratification conventions. Process of amendment & intervening events like, say, Civil War make the Framers’ intent moot. 27/40

We need to protect The Constitution, but from people like my opponents and trump. 28/40

2) SOCIALISM is bad. Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy notes that in a 1924 “Dictionary of Socialism, there were “canvassed no fewer than forty definitions of socialism...” 29/40

“Socialism is best defined in contrast with capitalism ... and as a proposal for overcoming and replacing it.” Capitalism is like the NCAA hoops tournament for businesses, except history shows that businesses do not always play clean. 30/40

Also, once the tournament is over, there is no re-set for a new tournament. Too much capital is required and, with all that power, the winner usually sues to protect its gains. That’s what happened in the 1890s. 31/40