My question for you @marwilliamson is this:
Can we achieve the ideal without confronting the American reality?
1. We have a Constitution written for white, male, property owners.
2. We have a #Democracy that has abdicated its power to unaccountable #CorporateGovernment.https://twitter.com/marwilliamson/status/1261302399446253570 …
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1/ Can we achieve the ideal without confronting the American reality?>> No. We have a Constitution written for white, male, property owners.>> That's the irony. Most of them didn't embody the principles they bequeathed to us, but the principles remain enlightened nonetheless.
2 <<We have a #Democracy that has abdicated its power to unaccountable #CorporateGovernment.>>
Other generations had to fight off slavery, institutionalized suppression of women, institutionalized white supremacy. We're not facing a bigger foe than they did; it's our turn now.
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1/ White supremacy is still institutionalized, suppression of women is still institutionalized, slavery is still legal. None of those things have been defeated, the struggle isn't over, and activists are being funneled into a Democratic Party that doesn't care about them.
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2/ No. The principles of the Founding Fathers were not particularly enlightened. They used very impressive political language, but the Constitution was deliberately designed to minimize and nullify democratic input from the actual people.
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We're still fighting those same fights.
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