NiftyNiblick
1960s Chick Magnet
The Constitution of the United states was ratified in 1788.
This is 2018. Humanity has hopefully evolved.
While our Constitution may have been an inspired document in 1788,
it's a total anachronism now. The Constitution of the United States needs a page one rewrite.
Picture a new constitutional convention today. There is no way all fifty of our states would ratify the same constitution now. Which means that there's no way the republic would remain configured as it exists today.
The United States of America are together a dysfunctional nation. We have massive factions of people who cannot be happy living under the same laws and tax codes. 13 States ratified our original constitution, and that was hard. Can you image all fifty of our current states ratifying the same constitution today? I can't because it would never happen.
The northeast is one nation. The rust belt is another. The former confederacy is a third.
The flyover states are a fourth. The west coast is a fifth. Together, we are the old Yugoslavia or Soviet Union. We are groups of people with nothing in common being thrust together as a single incongruous, unnatural nation.
I've spent plenty of time in Red State America. It honestly doesn't feel like my country.
The people speak some version of English, albeit not as similar to the Queen's own English as we speak where I live. They share none of my social values. They listen to insane preachers on the radio. They listen to shitkicker country music. Except in a few of their larger major cities, there are no decent ethnic restaurants. A few miles outside of their major cities, one may as well be on a different planet. People walk around with firearms as though they're in a war zone.
A new constitutional convention would result in the long overdue partitioning of the United States into more ideologically homogeneous multiple nations. How long can we survive as we are now?
This is 2018. Humanity has hopefully evolved.
While our Constitution may have been an inspired document in 1788,
it's a total anachronism now. The Constitution of the United States needs a page one rewrite.
Picture a new constitutional convention today. There is no way all fifty of our states would ratify the same constitution now. Which means that there's no way the republic would remain configured as it exists today.
The United States of America are together a dysfunctional nation. We have massive factions of people who cannot be happy living under the same laws and tax codes. 13 States ratified our original constitution, and that was hard. Can you image all fifty of our current states ratifying the same constitution today? I can't because it would never happen.
The northeast is one nation. The rust belt is another. The former confederacy is a third.
The flyover states are a fourth. The west coast is a fifth. Together, we are the old Yugoslavia or Soviet Union. We are groups of people with nothing in common being thrust together as a single incongruous, unnatural nation.
I've spent plenty of time in Red State America. It honestly doesn't feel like my country.
The people speak some version of English, albeit not as similar to the Queen's own English as we speak where I live. They share none of my social values. They listen to insane preachers on the radio. They listen to shitkicker country music. Except in a few of their larger major cities, there are no decent ethnic restaurants. A few miles outside of their major cities, one may as well be on a different planet. People walk around with firearms as though they're in a war zone.
A new constitutional convention would result in the long overdue partitioning of the United States into more ideologically homogeneous multiple nations. How long can we survive as we are now?
