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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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.
The very fact that we can be arguing this on twitter is because of those principles.
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Untrue. We can have the same argument in Canada, Spain, Mexico, or even Tunisisa. There is nothing unique or exceptional about the principles they communicated. This conversation may also be read by the FBI right now. That's very American.
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There are many strains to American history. You can look at some of them in isolation, or you can look at them as a whole. No one gets to be wrong or right here. And no, you can’t say all that about Tunisia, Mexico or Spain.
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