Comments by "Rhythmicons" (@Rhythmicons) on "Highland Park Suspect Was in Online Communities Where People Are "Programming Themselves to Kill"" video.

@cedricjones5696 What 15th century gun are you referring to?
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@arianollie5496 THEY don't control our lives, WE do, and the document they penned provides for it to be amended to accommodate our changing needs and values. It is important to maintain the freedoms that we enjoy, that EVERYONE, regardless of their political ideology, has a loyalty to the principles of the Constitution. We just need an objective standard as to what those loyalties are and to whom they apply. The Enlightenment values that undergird our Constitution are worthy of preservation. All of the hero worship of the framers is for the birds.
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@cedricjones5696 17th century.
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@cedricjones5696 No, the moment that the majority of citizens no longer adhere to the principles of the Constitution will be the moment that the government we currently have no longer exists.
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@donalddavis9705 The sad part about it is that I don't think you and I agree which side is the "Constitution" side. Cause it damn sure isn't the right.
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His knife collection was probably a bunch of Chinese-made crap that would break.
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In 1789, muskets WERE weapons of war. To get around their lack of firepower, they countermarched, allowing for a more rapid rate of fire. If white supremacist militias own AR15s, then I should too. Lefties better start getting behind gun ownership because we're eventually going to be at the mercy of those right wing militias.
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@arianollie5496 Because their form of government works and is worth fighting for.
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@arianollie5496 What we are definitely seeing through the hundreds of McConnell Judges (let's be honest about who is responsible) is conservative social engineering. McConnell believes that the "originalist" interpretation of the constitution will be normalized via the hundreds upon hundreds of generations of law clerks and who will work in the offices over the next 30-50 years as the judges age and eventually retire to teaching positions at prestigious law schools. He believes that this will perpetuate itself indefinitely. Frankly I don't want to hear shit about the laws being interpreted "in the history and traditions of this country" when the same people don't want to have an honest and principled dialogue about our history in the first place. You can think what you will about the 2a but don't disregard the rest of them because we have catholic ideologues in charge of the laws right now. They WANT you to argue in favor of abolishing the Constitution because they want to too. It's an obstacle. They don't believe the freedoms and principles apply to anyone but them.
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@arianollie5496 It's not a pendulum it's a coup. Just like right before the Civil War, conservatives (slave owners) saw the writing on the wall; they didn't have the North's population, they didn't have any more slave states to carve out of territory, California put free soil south of the 36º 30' line, so their majority in the House and Senate was jeopardized. They were no longer able to keep the F-Street Mess, which were people in important positions of power that could kill any bill that mentioned slavery, so they opted to settle it on the battlefield by seceding without even seeing what Lincoln was going to do. This is the same thing that is happening today when the right considers that they are a minority demographically, and that people of color are going to outnumber them in a few decades. So they are done with democracy. We are witnessing conservative social engineering so that WASPs never lose their grip on the levers of power and if that means dispensing with the whole goddamn constitution they are already in the process of doing so. The left is going to have to decide whether or not they are willing to fight for the principles of the Constitution or if they want to live in a fascist authoritarian theocracy. All of the laws that you don't like amount to "We don't want your kind around here" laws. The right wants enclaves of power where they rule without accountability because they don't want people in their states who don't look and think like they do. When neo-Confederates argue that the South will rise again, this is what they mean.
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@gordonschiff3621 How do you come to that conclusion? They attempted a coup, lying about election fraud to roll back voting rights. They are banning books and criminalizing the teaching of history. Is it because they pay lip service to the Constitution that you buy into it?
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They typically don't.
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