For starters, I don’t support brute force, in fact, I’m mostly anti-police force in most aspects. I don’t want people’s lives oppressed, it’s about the corporations and the choice of the people. The choice isn’t by as slim of a margin as 51-49, if we are truly split on something at that level, then, depending upon circumstances, we should try and ignore that issue until the margin is higher. I believe that the benefit of the entire whole is greater than that of a tiny portion’s comfort, which is why I’d suggest a progressive fair tax system. We are also neither exclusively a democracy, nor a republic, we are BOTH.
When trump is trying to decrease the powers of the “deep state” he is putting the leftover powers directly into his own pockets. The DOJ will be his tool of exacting revenge, he’s stated that himself, all while complaining about Biden doing it when he’s not even near the helm of the investigation. My greater concern right now is what that power goes to if Project 2025 is enacted, along with the unscientific policies inside the Mandate. We can worry about their accountability later, but I am more concerned about the movement of independent agencies from neither congress nor the president, to direct control by the president.
The only church that you’d support is likely just most Christian sects, since if we’re going to let religious morality have a high influence on government (the founding fathers practically begged the population not to let that happen) then Muslim, Buddhist, Wiccan, Satanic, and Hindu beliefs are allowed as well.
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The "assumptions" I made were not, in fact, drawn from just this comment, but endless interactions and debates we have had in the past on a wide, wide range of political issues. By brute force, I meant far more than just the police, I meant economic power as well. The government is the only human institution that can tell us to obey its will or it will drag us off in chains to prison at gunpoint. The government is the only human institution that can take our money without permission and not. be punished for it (this is known as taxation, or LEGALIZED THEFT. That's all part of… Read more
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If we are purely referring to economic power, then lessening restrictions on a companies economic maneuvering quite literally makes them just as capable, if not more, of becoming an institution worse than government. Also, the government is NOT the only institution capable of doing that, it is merely the strongest. Terrorist organizations, invading militaries, they all have that power too.
During the time of the nations founding, they were fleeing a government that was using religion to its own means, while the government itself practically worshipped the religion. Overall, religious leaders… Read more
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Unbelievable – I just thoroughly debunked you and here you are claiming that, in spite of the many quotations of our founders provided, they in fact supported the opposite of what they said... Can nothing convince you? Will you not listen to any evidence contrary to your CNN-provided viewpoint? And were you aware that the phrase "separation of church and state" comes not from the Constitution, Declaration, Articles of Confederation, State Constitutions, or any legal document, but a single case in a private letter? Were you aware that the Founders supported public funding of… Read more
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I don’t even watch CNN, this is my own study from sources across the board. Thomas Jefferson still supported separation of church and state nonetheless, and regardless, the inequalities and injustices of a single religion ruling over other religions is FAR too much of a problem to be considered worth it. Also the phrase is enshrined in our First Amendment’s bill of rights, and not all of the founding fathers supported the idea, but Jefferson very much did. The Bible swearing in isn’t a law favoring any religion’s power or ability, merely a symbol of a common religion,… Read more
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What Thomas Jefferson was talking about in your quote was that civilians should not be required to participate in a specific church by law, which you would have known had you read that in context and not taken at face-value cherry-picked selective quotation hand-selected by the Left for ideological purposes. Jefferson supported that prayer and Protestant Christianity be taught in Virginia's public schools, and believed that all government policies must reflect the Judeo-Christian moral tradition. Just because prayer, and religion, are taught in public schools does not mean that you are… Read more