Comments by "Harry Mills" (@harrymills2770) on "Asmon Reacts to "...but the people are retarded"" video.

  1. The U.S. Constitution actually reflects this sentiment. It's EASY to get a majority to go for really stupid things, but there's always about 1/3 of the people who won't go for extremely stupid stuff. So what did the Founding Fathers do? They built the best founding document they could, on which 2/3 of everybody could agree. They enshrined that 2/3 majority in our founding document, with a rule that said "You need 2/3 majority to change anything. Anything the federal government wasn't told it MAY do, it may NOT do." That worked amazingly well for an amazingly long time, but the rot of corruption set in. Using bare majorities and a politicized Supreme Court, they opened up the floodgates for the federal government to basically do anything, intervene in anything, and do as it pleased, which is unconstitutional as hell. Some think Lincoln was the beginning of the end, suspending habeus corpus by edict, the better to fight a war against half of the nation. And because slavery is a bad thing, he gets nothing but praise. But during and after his presidency, the power of the federal government grew by leaps and bounds. The rest is a sad story of the slow, inexorable de-construction of life, liberty, and property.
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