The Constitution is Outdated

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Originally Posted by jakeleinen1

Apparently the constitution is outdated...

Have you heard people say this? My facebook is 'littered' with these kind of comments. Anybody else heard people say this?

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Yes, I have seen this floating around the internet too. A lot of Germans thought that the Weimar Republik was needing to be replaced by National Socialism too...until about 1943 when all the bombers started turning their Fatherland into rubble. Fools, just damn fools.

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Originally Posted by SouthernBoy

...[I]t's pretty clear that you and I hail from a different time with different values and a different culture than what we see permeating the current contemporary America...it saddens me to see my nation actually taking the direction the radicals prayed for in the 60's...

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I'm about to turn 75.
I ran a leather shop during the '60s, '70s, and part of the '80s, and I did my best to educate my Hippie customers—to no real avail, because they were absolutely convinced that they were right. I can't fault them: I was exactly the same, when I was a 'teen. The difference was that, eventually, I had to start working for a living, and to learn what that meant. Meanwhile, those Hippies continued to live off of their indulgent parents, well into their 30s, after which they inherited enough to never have to seriously look poverty in the face. So they are still convinced, as only the relatively indolent can be, that Socialism and Political Correctness are the correct forms for society to take—as long as it's forced on you, not on them (the elite).
It wasn't the poor, who framed and constructed the Russian revolution. It was the children of the wealthy, who were the only people with the leisure to construct social fantasies, and to debate them into being. Like the Germans of 1943, they were completely surprised at the actual result of their "work." The much more vicious and politically-savvy Bolsheviks took their idealistic revolution away from them, and then stood them up against the nearest wall for terminal "political reëducation" (see: Trotsky/Trotskyism/Trotskyite).
So now we have at least two consecutive generations who are still convinced that some sort of all-knowing "Big Brother" government can take care of us all, without anybody being required to work very hard. After all, all we have to do is just print more money, right?

I read the Pravda article. I'm glad that some Russians have learned the lesson. Someday, the children of our two generations of Hippies will also have learned the lesson. But our nation, and our liberties, will already have suffered terribly, just as the Russians and the Germans have.
Jean and I won't be here, but our children will, and their children too. I wish that we could leave a better legacy of liberty for them, but their loss of it will actually be entirely their own fault.

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Originally Posted by Steve M1911A1

I'm about to turn 75.
I ran a leather shop during the '60s, '70s, and part of the '80s, and I did my best to educate my Hippie customers—to no real avail, because they were absolutely convinced that they were right. I can't fault them: I was exactly the same, when I was a 'teen. The difference was that, eventually, I had to start working for a living, and to learn what that meant. Meanwhile, those Hippies continued to live off of their indulgent parents, well into their 30s, after which they inherited enough to never have to seriously look poverty in the face. So they are still convinced, as only the relatively indolent can be, that Socialism and Political Correctness are the correct forms for society to take—as long as it's forced on you, not on them (the elite).
It wasn't the poor, who framed and constructed the Russian revolution. It was the children of the wealthy, who were the only people with the leisure to construct social fantasies, and to debate them into being. Like the Germans of 1943, they were completely surprised at the actual result of their "work." The much more vicious and politically-savvy Bolsheviks took their idealistic revolution away from them, and then stood them up against the nearest wall for terminal "political reëducation" (see: Trotsky/Trotskyism/Trotskyite).
So now we have at least two consecutive generations who are still convinced that some sort of all-knowing "Big Brother" government can take care of us all, without anybody being required to work very hard. After all, all we have to do is just print more money, right?

I read the Pravda article. I'm glad that some Russians have learned the lesson. Someday, the children of our two generations of Hippies will also have learned the lesson. But our nation, and our liberties, will already have suffered terribly, just as the Russians and the Germans have.
Jean and I won't be here, but our children will, and their children too. I wish that we could leave a better legacy of liberty for them, but their loss of it will actually be entirely their own fault.

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Very well written and very true. My memory is very clear about what has taken place over the past 60 years in our country.

Hope you and yours enjoy a comfortable and healthy new year.

...You, too.