The Congress, whenever two thirds of both Houses shall deem it necessary, shall propose Amendments to this Constitution, or, on the Application of the Legislatures of two thirds of the several States, shall call a Convention for proposing Amendments, which, in either Case, shall be valid to all Intents and Purposes, as Part of this Constitution, when ratified by the Legislatures of three fourths of the several States or by Conventions in three fourths thereof, as the one or the other Mode of Ratification may be proposed by the Congress; Provided that no Amendment which may be made prior to the Year One thousand eight hundred and eight shall in any Manner affect the first and fourth Clauses in the Ninth Section of the first Article; and that no State, without its Consent, shall be deprived of its equal Suffrage in the Senate.posted by gerryblog at 8:44 AM on September 3, 2011 [1 favorite]
Registering them [the Poor] to vote is like handing out burglary tools to criminals. It is profoundly antisocial and un-American to empower the nonproductive segments of the population to destroy the country -- which is precisely why Barack Obama zealously supports registering welfare recipients to vote.What bothers me the most is the fact that Matthew Vadem feels comfortable enough to write this. This is more evidence that the "Conservative" Right Wing is not afraid to push even farther to the Right than we ever imagined 20 years ago. "Encouraging every citizen to vote is un-American" is as jaw-dropping an idea as "Lets abolish the minimum wage" and "Social Security and Medicare are unconstitutional" and "If you own a refrigerator you are not poor."
"The American Thinker, by the way, is the same zine that published this blockbuster piece of investigative journalism last week, 'Early Obama Letter Confirms Inability to Write,' which reads like a particularly nit-picky chapter from a KKK re-release of the Elements of Style. In it, reporter Jack Cashill proves the president's illiteracy by pointing to his failure - not once but twice! - 'to make subject and predicate agree' in a letter that he wrote in college decades ago. Nevermind that Obama was the editor of the Harvard Law Review or that he penned two best-selling books without a ghost-writer - Jack Cashill is sure that he's an ungrammatical 'neophyte race-hustler' who snuck into the White House via affirmative action.posted by ericb at 2:31 PM on September 3, 2011 [3 favorites]
But there's nothing racist about the right's opposition to Obama! And class warfare is all on the left!*
Conservatives Say It Out Loud: They Hate Democracy, Dave Johnson, Truthout, 23rd September, 2011
The roots of today's toxic conservative movement lie in Ayn Rand's teaching that wealthy "producers" -- now called "job creators" -- should be left alone by the government, namely the rest of us. The rest of us are "freeloaders," "moochers," "leeches" and "parasites" who feed off these producers and who shouldn't be allowed to make decisions to collect taxes from them or regulate them or interfere in most other ways. The Randians hate democracy, and say so, declaring that "collectivism" sacrifices individual rights to majority wishes.posted by ob1quixote at 7:42 AM on September 25, 2011 [3 favorites]
For decades these selfish, childish, "you can't make me" beliefs stayed largely below the radar, because conservatives understood that voicing them in public risked alienating ... well, anyone with any sense at all. But for various reasons sense has departed the country and conservatives are finally saying it out loud, for everyone to hear: they hate democracy. They want to limit the country's decision-making and the rewards of our society and economy to those they feel "deserve" to be on top, namely the "producers" and "job-creators."
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