Comments by "BlackFlagsNRoses" (@blackflagsnroses6013) on "Trump u0026 Biden -- TRUTH In The Streets!" video.
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@George Christian no one said that. I said actually live up to your ideals as a liberal nation. A piece of paper is worth as much as people protect those ideals. You claiming BLM as divisive and a violent wave is as much State and corporate propaganda as the ideal that all conservatives want an ethno State. It’s the narrative they sell people to divide.
The Constitution in itself was a counterrevolution of the country’s elites. They feared the kind of democratic liberal republic the people envisioned from Thomas Paine’s Common Sense. The pamphlet that revolutionized the colonialists. They got rid of the Articles of Confederation to douse the fervor of radical liberalism and democracy. The Federalist Constitution was so that the elites could feel in better control. The anti-federalists were more radically liberal and Jefferson lead the conflict against the Federalist’s. In exchange for the creation of the stronger Federal government Jefferson and anti-federalists appealed for a Bill of Rights that may protect citizens from government overreach. But their fears were realized as seen by James Madison’s dissent into the anti-federalist or Jeffersonian democratic-Republican camp. The vision of liberal democracy and republicanism that inspired revolutionaries from Thomas Paine was quelled by Federalist elite’s need for order to protect their status as new ruling elite. This is why Thomas Paine was criticized by the Founding Fathers as a radical and extremist, and died in obscurity in the very new nation he inspired to form itself. Thomas Paine and Jefferson both believed a Constitution is only as valued as the living generations, and no generation should be ruled by the dead. They held ideas to reform and redraft constitutions every several years so that living generations may have a true social contract. Jefferson ironically despite his contradictions was the Founder with the most faith in common people. This is the liberal society counterrevolutionaries tried to contain, as they feared the loss of their privileges.
“When it can be said by any country in the world, my poor are happy, neither ignorance nor distress is to be found among them, my jails are empty of prisoners, my streets of beggars, the aged are not in want, the taxes are not oppressive, the rational world is my friend because I am the friend of happiness. When these things can be said, then may that country boast its constitution and government. Independence is my happiness, the world is my country and my religion is to do good.” (Rights of Man, Thomas Paine)
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