Comments by "Aaron Okeanos" (@AaronOkeanos) on "The Stunning Hypocrisy of Constitutional "Originalists" (Mark Tushnet Interview)" video.

  1. Why don't you have a look at Germany. Germanys democracy was heavily influenced by the american democracy as one of the victors of the 2nd world war. However the Germans not just copied the American constitution they incorporated the experiences made during the Weimar Republic (Germanys first version of a democracy) and how Hitler was able to get into power. So they made an improved version which covered a lot of "bad experiences" made by the power grab of Hitler and mistakes which were made in Germany's 1st democracy. Germany has a very strict seperation of powers and numerous unchangable laws which protects the democracy and the constitution from changes andd prevent powergrabs. This includes a high-court like the Supreme Court who watches as the 3rd power over what executive and legislislative are doing. It also ensures nothing can be totally centralized by watching over federalism as well. It also ensures the base rights formulated in the constitution are not improperly changed or even abolished and protects human rights. However the Bundesverfassungsgericht (that it's name roughly translated the "federal constitutional court") is not political. It remains strictly a legal watchdog and it does not involve itself in the legislation as the supreme court does unless legislation infringes on the constitutional rights or human rights. It proved to be very useful and necesarry and overall relative robust but above all it's not politicised quite the contrary every politican tries to avoid situations which makes the involvement of this court necesarry because it complicates things. So law-making tends to be within the confines of the constitution and never be so extreme that it allows grounds of involving this court. ... As it should be. Intresting side-remark. Germany also removed the election of the leader of government (the chancelor) to be directly voted by the population. The parliament is voting on the chancelor. The people just vote the parliament. It prevents that leaders can fool the population by charm or personality or by lies because members of parliaments vote and they can detect lies a little earlier than normal people usually. It's another protection made in view of the Weimar Republic and Hitler.
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  2. - Keep the Supreme Court but remove the politicisation. The Executive saying who is judge for example is questionable. - Change the 2-party system into a multi-party system by introducing proportional voting. - Reduce the stalling-capability of the Senate and make it a legislative revising 2nd chamber, not a blocking primary one. Laws are made by the directly elected House the Senate is supposed to be revising only! Let the House do it's job!
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  3. Just because you don't like the truth doesn't mean it stops being true. And in the end there is only one truth ... but OAN ... OAN doesn't provide it! They treat the truth like an absusive husband treats his wife.
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  4. How can you detect right wing nutters? Answer: They upvote themselves within 60 seconds. Like this post above.
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  5.  @sheilaw5580  As if the Senate isn't any better.
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