I was unaware I hated the Constitution. Any chance to fill me in further?
Sure. Our constitution was designed to give the power to the people and NOT to the powerful and wealthy interests over the people - whether they were title nobility in England or corporations in America. The right-wing agenda is exactly the opposite of that - to destroy democracy and shift power from the people to those interests. That's its only real agenda.
And to do that, it's done it since the industrial revolution when corporations fought for and finally gained the Supreme Court saying 'corporations are persons' entitled to equal rights under the recently passed 14th amendment - which really means that they were protected FROM the people, taking the power of the people away to limit corporate excesses.
And since Nixon's presidency, they've made a special goal of issuing rulings claiming that the constitution makes the wealthy using their wealth in unlimited amounts, to get more power - one dollar, one vote rather than one person, one vote - another constitutionally protected right of the wealthy. That defeats democracy and defeats the intent of the constitution - as the minority dissents from Justices not appointed by Republicans pointed out.
It's nothing short of a war on the constitution by appointing Justices who have a radical agenda to rewrite it, and you support it.
Politicians have been corrupt from the beginning. The idea that money will leave politics and our politicians will act differently is a pipe dream.
That's nonsense as a generalization. You appear to be utterly ignorant about the issue. When Carter and Reagan ran, their campaigns were a small fraction of what they cost today, paid for entirely by public financing. Either the people rule or wealth will rule, and thanks to the Republican Supreme court, the people will be ruled by wealth and have no recourse short of a constitutional amendment to undo the damage - which they can't pass because they wealthy can buy the elections.
And radical is the constitution. If supporting it makes me radical then so be it.
No, radical is destroying the constitution, by applying the radical right-wing agenda to say the constitution says things it doesn't, to 'interpret' the power of the people away.
You clearly don't know the first thing about the constitution versus the right-wing re-writing of it, and so you need to read some books. Why don't you start with "Unequal Protections" by Thom Hartmann.
