She probably makes the poor kid wear one at home.

It's all about protecting herself. What a dumb cunt.

That's a bit of a misreading of dark enlightenment.

Political structures are a pendulum between corruption and revolution. The antidote to a corrupt dictator is a democratic revolution. The antidote to a corrupt democracy is a dictator. This is explained in the parable of Mundana and Mutopia.

Neither democracy or dictatorship is inherently good or bad. It's all dependent on the virtue of the people running the system. This is dark enlightenment.

Dark enlightenment is the way.

From now on, everyone should refer to Soros as "Nazi collaborator, George Soros."

There’s a long history of the executive and legislature infringing upon our constitutional rights. There’s also a long history of the judiciary striking down those infringements and upholding our constitutional rights. This is what I’m referring to when I say the Constitution has acted as a safeguard throughout our history as a nation.

Regarding other actions we need to take, I neglected to mention the most important thing, namely that parents need to take back control of their children’s upbringing. For far too long we have abdicated this responsibility to the state and more recently, the internet.

You are quite correct to say that government is an extension of culture. The evildoers have been manipulating our culture for decades on end primarily through indoctrinating schoolchildren with their Social Marxism. This insidious cultural reformation has run its course to such a degree that we are on the precipice of voting in actual Marxism. We simply cannot withstand another generation of this indoctrination The only way we can stem the tide on the impending color revolution on the horizon is to restore American values in our education system and reclaim our responsibility for raising the youth. This happens from household to household and on the local level through direct parental involvement.

I agree with your sentiments regarding the role of government being to provide security. The social contract, as described by Locke, is an exchange of personal freedom for social security. In a purely natural state, we have infinite freedom. This is not entirely desirable being that in a purely natural state there is nothing to protect us person or our property from violence and theft other than the threat of our own violence.

In a civilized society, we have agreed to forfeit our natural freedom to commit violence and theft. Therefore, the legitimacy of any government is largely predicated upon the society agreeing that the government has a near-monopoly on the use of force. Should this agreement break, violent revolution is likely to follow.

I firmly believe violence is an option of last resort. Exhausting all other options is mandatory in my view. This is true at a scale i.e. regardless of whether we are discussing personal disputes or a corrupt government. However, if it is true that other options are impossible or ineffective, as you suggest, then those options have been exhausted. That being said, America is far from exhausting our other options. To be frank, the only reason things have gotten this bad is due to wide spread apathy. People would rather spend their time mindlessly consuming than actually taking interest in their society.

Previously you wrote that the tree of liberty must be fed with blood. It’s a profound quote. However, I also ascribe to the notion that the price of liberty is eternal vigilance, which is ironically another quote from Jefferson. We, as a society, have utterly failed to maintain the degree of vigilance required and we are paying dearly for that failure.

Unfortunately, this comes as no surprise. All great societies follow the same general pattern: Revolution -> Golden Age -> Apathy -> Corruption -> Societal Breakdown -> Revolution. This is a natural and perhaps unavoidable cycle. When government is corrupt and mistreating the people, the people naturally become vigilant. Given sufficient corruption, the people may even be willing to overthrow the government through violence (i.e. the social contract breaks). However, when a Golden Age occurs, the natural inclination of the public becomes one of apathy. After all, if society is operating smoothly and there is abundance, it naturally follows that the people will become less civically-minded and more inclined to consume. However, once apathy becomes common, governmental corruption necessarily follow due to human greed. And thus the cycle repeats.

It's not a self-selected political class though. It's a political underclass selected by the financial system overclass. So long as those people get to pick who runs, term limits are close to irrelevant.

The have done a good job bastardizing the Constitution over the course of centuries but you are being hyperbolic when you say that it is outright ignored. It’s an extremely important safeguard.

Yes, the culture of American revolutionaries is what led them to create the Bill of Rights. In turn, the fact that they created that document was an important safeguard in protecting those rights. No one will deny culture has changed significantly over the last 250 years. I have no doubt that without these legal safeguards it would be much worse than without.

That’s not to say that we can all just ignore what’s happening and expect to be fully protected by the constitution. Much to the contrary, we need to take affirmative steps to protecting our ideals and our liberty. This is accomplished through private enterprise and through interacting on the political plane, especially on the local level.

There’s a good reason the United States has enjoyed an unprecedented degree of peace since its founding. We have not had to suffer through the bloodshed of war on our own soil. Certainly, you must appreciate that violence is a last resort and is fundamentally a point of no return. You cannot fault people for avoiding that drastic step.

The point is our culture of freedom would not have endured for so long if we did not enshrine that culture in our most important legal document. I've made no argument against a necessity for the citizens of the country to stand up for their rights. Much to the contrary, I find that to be imperative.

Remind me what is the second bill of rights?

The fact we have these unique rights that the vast majority of world does not is precisely the reason American culture is synonymous with freedom and liberty.

Jus sanguinis is a far better system given the realities of international travel and the unsecure nature of our border.

However, I would support a modified version of jus sanguinis that says you can be a citizen, if at the time of birth, at least one parent is a legal resident (as opposed to a citizen) of the US.

A lot of people saying term limits for Congress but I don't think this will do much and possibly even make things worse. The issue isn't about term limits but actually bribery, regulatory capture, and control over who runs for office.

If you place term limits without correcting those three issues all that will happen is there will be a revolving door of big-business lackeys instead of a consistent set of big-business lackeys. This could lead to an even more controlled Congress because the individual congress people would have less power since they are limited in term.

A set of responsibilities in this day and age? That is antithetical to the bill of rights. A bill of obligations sounds like an excellent way to get us to slavery to the government.

We constantly enact new things the government can do. The whole premise behind the bill of rights is there are certain things the government cannot do.

The reason we aren't like Australia having police knocking and making warrantless arrests for wrongspeak is precisely because we have a bill of rights.

I agree we won't get any effective action out of this but it is a useful thought experiment.

First, additional bills of rights for the modern era:

1. Right to bodily autonomy (including medical autonomy)
2. Right to privacy (online data, right to be deleted, right to be anonymous online) - this would render the Patriot Act unconstitutional
3. Right to online speech (applying 1st amendment to online public forums)

Second, place some limits on existing things that have gotten out of control:

1. Curtail the power of the administrative state and restore congress as lawmakers as opposed to unelected bureaucrats
2. Restrict eminent domain to prevent property acquired through eminent domain from being transferred to private companies
3. Amend the commerce and tax clauses to remove the quasi-police power granted to the federal government during the post-Lochner era - this would render Social Security and Medicare unconstitutional which would fix our budget crisis
4. Reduce the ability of congress to pass omnibus bills i.e. something like a one-bill one-purpose rule
5. Amend the war powers clause to re-enshrine that Congress is the body that declares war.
6. Amend the Treasury Clause to render the private Fed unconstitutional and re-enshrine the Treasury as the sole body that is permitted to control monetary policy and print money

Third, limit corruption:

1. Ban the revolving door of public official later working for private enterprises that they were supposed to be regulating i.e. 5-10 year prohibition on working in the same private sector as you were working in government
2. Reorganize federal presidential elections to occur during a much shorter time-frame

Fourth, correct existing amendments:

1. Repeal the 23rd amendment and abolish the District of Columbia as being a separate entity from the states - can be placed into Virginia or Maryland
2. Amend the 26th amendment to be 25 years old i.e. the age your brain is fully developed