Quoridor: First Amendment.
There are two wars brewing. A world war, and a civil war.
It’s been nearly a year since Biden put his hand on a 1582 Douay-Rheims Bible and swore to protect America, and he will.
Nearly a year and it’s Christmas.
Texas was always in the brewing. Trump was in the brewing while Obama was still President. Civil war was always on the table.
3 days ago, President Biden signed the Protect Our Democracy Act, a bill that curbs Presidential power. A year into office, he fought to curtail his own powers, protecting America from a future dictatorship after his term.
I watched the Global Democracy Summit.
The Prime Minister of Belgium said this.
Liberal democracy is not about having a strong leader, but a strong leadership.
Democrats have complained about that Biden rarely makes media appearances. It’s not because he’s afraid of the cameras. Watch his opening speech addressing over 100 nations at the summit. He spoke for a long time, completely without referring to notes or a teleprompter. That’s how well he knows what he’s doing. That’s how much all the America’s plans and future is etched in his mind.
He does not appear on media frequently because he isn’t a salesman. He’s not there to sell himself as a figure. He acts by action.
He’s a strategist, protecting America against foreign threats.
He has passed the American Rescue Plan, bringing the Great Resignation back on its feet. In April this year, the unemployment rate spiked from 5% to 15%, the largest spike for 20 years. They brought it back down to 5%. 70% of Americans have now been vaccinated. The Bipartisan Infrastructure Plan is signed and sealed, within it, a plan to fight the global supply chain crisis to bring inflation down. (It’s now at 7%.)
Now, Texas.
Far right extremist groups are trying to remove 850 titles from a school’s library.
This goes beyond the protests for and against Critical Race Theory. I personally think CRT is ideological nonsense and learning about other races and cultures is not the same as speaking about comparing other races. Reread my sentence. See how ideologically cyclical it gets? When there are fundamental moral differences and hatred against other races, a fancy academic concept isn’t useful. It isn’t Black Lives Matter. It’s useless.
Banning books is about the First Amendment.
It’s about the freedoms of speech, the freedom of expression, the freedoms for children to be educated to become critical thinkers of their own right, to become constructive people who fight for good citizenry. Are we China? Do we want to be known by the world for censorship of literature?
Are we that afraid of ideas?
Now, Roe v. Wade.
This isn’t a simple issue.
The New York Times isn’t a left leaning propaganda machine. They are made of 1700 journalists who disagree with each other, and have the freedoms to do so. The First Amendment.
They published a pro-life opinion. A very strong argument written thoughtfully.
That post from me was a paradoxical statement to the Pynx, the square in which ancient Greeks — the Athenians gathered, to debate moral issues. Democracy is a moral right, the rule of law. People have the power to challenge their governments over anything. Governments are accountable to people. Yet, this same right is what makes democracy fragile.
Are you unable to read a pro-life opinion? If you are, your pro-choice beliefs must be very weak.
And then, an essay about how Roe v. Wade being overturned will result in the subjugation of women and that the country will adapt by opening abortion clinics along state lines that ban abortion. Coat-hanger abortions, illegal back-alley abortions, death of women.
Are you unable to read a pro-choice opinion? If you are, your pro-life beliefs must be very weak.
What is troubling about Roe v. Wade, fundamentally, is the festering distrust in the Supreme Court’s independence.
The rule of law states that there must be a pillar of the country that is independent of party lines.
Yet, Trump has stacked the court during his term, and the Due Process Clause of the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendment should be debated at its core, not thrown to judges who have failed to be independent protectors of the Declaration of Independence.
The Fifth Amendment says to the federal government that no one shall be “deprived of life, liberty or property without due process of law.” The Fourteenth Amendment, ratified in 1868, uses the same eleven words, called the Due Process Clause, to describe a legal obligation of all states.
Who is deprived of life? Both. Who is deprived of liberty? Both. Are women property of the state?
Rape? Incest? That’s out.
Back to the Pynx, there is little debate on the scientific morality behind abortion. Which trimester? Nervous system development in the foetus? Animals have nervous systems. Limbic system development in the foetus? Animals have limbic systems. Viability? Why is everyone avoiding the core of this moral question? Viability. Roe v. Wade never protected viability.
The Supreme Court must issue thoughtful judgements on this, instead of thinking politically about it. They must first and foremost consider the Constitution. Two things: Viability, and are women property of the state?
If the Supreme Court fails to act independently and issue judgments that carefully consider the Constitution, the nation will fall. If we, as a nation, fail to consider abortion as a complex issue, the nation will fall.
Civil war in Texas? Women taking to the streets, gunned down? That looks great against the backdrop of the Statue of Liberty.
No, we are not going to have a civil war.
Joe Biden has heralded The United States of America as the world’s leader in democracy, and refused to invite China and Russia.
He is relentlessly fearless. Joe Biden announced a $768 billion Defence Policy Fund the day before the summit. We could, but we are not going to attack any country, we are here to defend world democracy. If Russia wants to attack Ukraine, we will be there to back NATO.
China and Russia are so provoked by not being invited that their ambassadors even co-wrote a joint statement censuring the United States of America. Completely out of character for two totalitarian superpowers.
Joe Biden curbed his own presidential powers.
Democracy is not about having a strong leader, but a strong leadership.
Get to the Pynx. America’s not a joke.
We will have mass shootings, but we won’t tear our own country to pieces for the vultures.
