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2018-12-07 Home Front: Culture Wars

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Posted by g(r)omgoru 2018-12-07 07:26|| || Front Page|| [11131 views ] Top

#1 So the only way is more of the same, until everyone is out-leftying everyone else.

And then, one day, from each according to his abilities; to each according to her needs.

Posted by Bobby 2018-12-07 10:43|| 2018-12-07 10:43|| Front Page Top

#2 "carry a big stick"

Posted by 746 2018-12-07 11:10|| 2018-12-07 11:10|| Front Page Top

#3 Why do they assume there would be any lefties alive in the US after the war? I mean, kill food, power and water to the cities, shoot people trying to leave and in about 4 months, there basically are no democrat strongholds because there are no democrats.

Posted by Silentbrick 2018-12-07 11:39|| 2018-12-07 11:39|| Front Page Top

#4 A bunch of competing states barely held together by common interest and a federal government is what then. That was the intent in the constitution, it was broken by the Civil War but there is no reason it can't be recreated.

Posted by rjschwarz 2018-12-07 11:50|| 2018-12-07 11:50|| Front Page Top

#5 Repealing the Progressive amendments would be a start. 16, 17. Repeal the commerce clause or severely limit it. And emphasize 9 & 10th amendments.

Do that, and you'd fix a great many things that are broken. Power moves back to the states.

Add term limits amendment for the house and senate, and a balanced budget amendment with an anti-omnibus-bill clause requiring explicit financing information in each bill.

That fixes even more problems.

Address the grow-never-shrink nature of the federal government:

Toss in a sunset amendment requiring all laws/regulations to expire after 5 years unless explicity renewed.

Address corruption and back-room deals:

Add a sunshine amendment requiring all but classified national security issues to be openly presented and debated online to anyone that wants to see them prior to voting in committee or the floor, and all bills have to explicitly cite their constitutional basis.

Allow any amount of campaign contributions but they must be publicly declared within 24 hours and that includes the source unless its less than $100.

You do those things, and the nation reboots into something it should have been: A Republic of Laws where the rights and liberty of individuals are the highest value.

Posted by Glolush Whusotch4899 2018-12-07 13:12|| 2018-12-07 13:12|| Front Page Top

#6 Silentbrick, give a month for conservatives trapped behind enemy lines to leave before you shoot everyone. Also have them move to one specific state that can be watched carefully in case of infiltrators and such.

Posted by rjschwarz 2018-12-07 15:06|| 2018-12-07 15:06|| Front Page Top

#7 All this assumes no guns, of course.

Posted by gorb 2018-12-07 21:10|| 2018-12-07 21:10|| Front Page Top

#8 RJ, by the time this point would roll around, I suspect all sane conservatives forced to live there will have already left. While it would happen fast, the build up would not be quick.

Posted by Silentbrick 2018-12-07 22:45|| 2018-12-07 22:45|| Front Page Top

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