In Response

A conversation in response an article on http://www.politicususa.com/en/the-new-american-crisis  titled “The New American Crisis”

Shiva on November 25, 2011 at 9:17 am

     The Constitution that we live under was signed under similar circumstances as we have today. It was a time when states were highly distrustful of each other and even the people who had fought together in the Revolutionary war did not trust each other. For example, Patrick Henry refused to attend the constitutional convention because he said he smelled a rat. It was a time when the 39 people who signed the Constitution had absolutely no regard for the rights of women nor the rights of slaves. Today’s Republican Party wants to take us back to that frame of time. Where women have no rights, and people are not cohesive enough to fight against tyranny.

     74 men were chosen to be sent to the constitutional Congress. 55 men actually went and only 39 of those signed the Constitution. This country was not born from what the people of the states wanted, but what 55 men themselves wanted. And the Constitution was born out of compromise. That compromise today that is so hugely important to the governing of this country is disappearing. And that will lead to the destruction of this country and the rights that the people have.

     This is a time for revolution, but I have news for those who think that revolution is carried out with three cornered hats and guns. The revolution has to be carried out at the voting booths and the people who are responsible for the destruction of compromise must be removed no matter what party. Revolution does not recognize partisanship, it only recognizes doing the right thing

Josh Smith on November 25, 2011 at 8:54 pm

     Truly. However, and this is not an advocation for violence, but sometimes the only thing people respond to is force whether that be force of will (i.e. voting) or force of stick. It is truly disparaging that our apparent system appears to be so broken that we can’t even change things through a voting booth as was clearly depicted in the bush elections. When a system exists that provides political power through money and said money comes from corporations, the system as intended (that is by the people, for the people) is no longer a representative system but a bought system.