The sixteenth & seventeenth amendments should be repealed. At a minimum. I don't typically start there on political conversations. Because it can be laborsom to explain to someone looking for cheep points (obviously not referring to you here) that federal taxation is not only wrong but unnecessary & that senators are meant to be representatives of the several states not popularly elected.
Given that. I still pay my taxes and vote for a senator because they're are mechanisms to change these things & I happen to believe that those processes work & are important.
I usually start with taxes and steam roll right into states rights. It's pretty sad that a large majority of people believe that what we have now is what was given to us with the creation of the country. Weren't paying attention in classes or just were never taught. Yes Karen, the founding fathers created the FDA because they had nothing better to do.
Agreed. They are important and do work most of the time but we've been on a path that shows they are working less and less.
I agree with you about the constitutional convention. I fear we'd end up with, at least, FDR's 2nd Bill of Rights and definitely threats of escalated violence if the communist manifesto wasn't codified.
I feel very lucky to have grown up when and where I did. My teachers had high expectations of all students and sometimes I managed to live up to them. Not untypically, I was a bit of a self-centered prig when I was young and didn't take full advantage of what was offered to me, but they did manage to teach me how to learn and I've worked to continue doing so.
The green new deal and the communist manifesto. I was once for it but I'm fine for now.
I can't complain about the education I received either. For the most part, I proved myself and was given space to learn beyond what I was being taught.
I will say though, as bad as things are now, I'm not wanting to see a constitutional convention get called.
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