It is disturbing the degree to which the American political right is willing not only to prevent the extension of full rights to every member of our population, but also to roll back existing rights once taken for granted only a generation ago, such as the right to vote.
And yet they say they are patriots. Whose patriots? These are the people that wave Confederate flags and call themselves true Americans.
These are the people that slavishly worship an ancient Constitution and react to any attempt to update or amend it sensibly with vitriol, despite the fact that this very constitution was written to be changed, and that their Great Patriot Thomas Jefferson said:
"I am certainly not an advocate for frequent and untried changes in laws and constitutions. I think moderate imperfections had better be borne with; because, when once known, we accommodate ourselves to them, and find practical means of correcting their ill effects. But I know also, that laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind. As that becomes more developed, more enlightened, as new discoveries are made, new truths disclosed, and manners and opinions change with the change of circumstances, institutions must advance also, and keep pace with the times. We might as well require a man to wear still the coat which fitted him when a boy, as civilized society to remain ever under the regimen of their barbarous ancestors."
Yes. "New truths disclosed."
Such as...
Germ theory.
Electricity.
Telecommunications.
International governance.
Psychology.
Submachine guns.
You know. Trifles.
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