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Washintonian_For_Liberty wrote:
AWDstylez wrote:
I really have to lol at the irony of your cartoon. The world didn't end in '34 and it isn't going to end now.
Just goes to show how people make a panic out of nothing, simply because they don't understand what's going on around them.
Liberty and Freedom ended. Gold was confiscated from Americans at the end of a gun. Compulsory unionism was made into law. And FDR basically gave us big government. Roosevelt changed the very nature of the American government from a Constitutional Republic restrained by the Constitution to a populist Democracy ruled by Demagogues. Many of the reforms of the 1930s remain embedded in policy today including acreage allotments, price supports and marketing controls in agriculture, extensive regulation of private securities, federal intrusion into union-management relations, government lending and insurance activities (which are the primary cause of today's economic woes), the minimum wage, national unemployment insurance, Social Security and welfare payments, production and sale of electrical power by the federal government, fiat money--the list goes on. We are less free today thanks to the Fascist FDR and we were only saved by WWII when a Fascist made Fascism so unpopular, no politician dare try and introduce it back into America like FDR had been doing before the war... that is, until now. Americans have been sufficiently dumbed down by the education system that a re-introduction of Fascism can happen and when they're told about it, they scoff and claim that Fascism is far right and what Obama is doing is far left... yep, the propaganda passing off as civics and political science has paid off in spades.
As Jefferson liked to point out, the Constitution is an act of legislature and, its fancy name aside, has no weight that subsequent legislatures cannot repeal. This is recognized both in law, where the Constitution may be (and has been, numerously) amended by a simple (though decisive) act of legislature; and by reality, where the average citizen is restrained in his politics Constitution far more than is the government in its power (witness the Bush administration).
That the RKBA is growing has everything to do with the will of The People (that group so feared and despised by those like yourself who cannot help but constantly declaim against "populists" and "populism" in general) and less to do with the "Republicanism" of government.
The proof I offer of this is the
Heller decision: a grudging concession to the will of the people from an otherwise
thoroughly statist Supreme Court, who even in so doing could not bear to reach the logical conclusion of the 2nd Amendment and was compelled by its innate statism to gave us a document setting
ruinous precedent regarding the right to keep and bear weapons
unpopular (<-- notice that, there) in general use, such as those weapons made "unpopular" solely by their having been long banned, e.g. fully-automatic firearms.
For a self-declared anti-statist, you demonstrate uncanny trust in the Republicanism of
government to preserve rights, and very little in the depository where it truly lies, that being the people (you know, that segment of society other than "the state").
