How would that right be taken away? They have to vote in a corrupt Senate, President, and House in order to pass legislation that removes... democracy... and then they need to bribe all the courts because that goes against the Constitution, then they need to bribe SCOTUS.
I don't know, maybe people started thinking that the Constitution is "clearly an outdated piece of shit that this country clings to for selfish reasons" (http://talk-politics.livejournal.com/1643533.html?thread=131439885#t131439885) and it is no more? Speaking more realistically, perhaps it starts with some horrific attack that makes 9/11 look like a speech interrupted by code pink activist. It convinces the legislative branch that perhaps there is a need for the President to stay in power longer than eight years and removes term limits. During said President's 4th term, they decides hey, this Supreme Court is pissing me off, I'm going to add 9 new seats to the Supreme Court and add in Justices that will do what I tell them to. 'No way a President might try such a thing,' one may say, but wait FDR tried it. See the Judiciary Reorganization Bill of 1937. Maybe they will go the Lincoln route and just straight up ignore the Federal courts. Perhaps the President then decides that elections are becoming bothersome, so they decide to get ride of them. Why not!? The Supreme Court is in his pocket or doesn't matter. And it goes on and on.
The idea that this could happen instantly, or ever, is a paranoid delusion and it illustrates exactly the sort of tinfoil hattery that I keep seeing with these 'last line of defense' people.
I don't know, but you just argued that the Constitution doesn't protect our rights a few days ago, but now you are arguing that is exactly what it does, and people who believe that someone might have the balls to completely ignore the Constitution and claim ultimate power as a paranoid delusion holder.
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Date: 22/1/13 02:39 (UTC)I don't know, maybe people started thinking that the Constitution is "clearly an outdated piece of shit that this country clings to for selfish reasons" (http://talk-politics.livejournal.com/1643533.html?thread=131439885#t131439885) and it is no more? Speaking more realistically, perhaps it starts with some horrific attack that makes 9/11 look like a speech interrupted by code pink activist. It convinces the legislative branch that perhaps there is a need for the President to stay in power longer than eight years and removes term limits. During said President's 4th term, they decides hey, this Supreme Court is pissing me off, I'm going to add 9 new seats to the Supreme Court and add in Justices that will do what I tell them to. 'No way a President might try such a thing,' one may say, but wait FDR tried it. See the Judiciary Reorganization Bill of 1937. Maybe they will go the Lincoln route and just straight up ignore the Federal courts. Perhaps the President then decides that elections are becoming bothersome, so they decide to get ride of them. Why not!? The Supreme Court is in his pocket or doesn't matter. And it goes on and on.
The idea that this could happen instantly, or ever, is a paranoid delusion and it illustrates exactly the sort of tinfoil hattery that I keep seeing with these 'last line of defense' people.
I don't know, but you just argued that the Constitution doesn't protect our rights a few days ago, but now you are arguing that is exactly what it does, and people who believe that someone might have the balls to completely ignore the Constitution and claim ultimate power as a paranoid delusion holder.