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ORIGINAL: DarlingSavage
The thing is that the left is mainly comprised of people with education, people who understand what's up. They are, in a sense, a bit more refined. The right has made an effort to appeal to the ignorant, uneducated masses through fear mongering. All these people are terrified of socialism and they don't even know what it is. But the left doesn't sit idle, I've been politically active ever since the last admin when there was such a strong call for activism. However, I will continue to be politically active. I want a better world for my grandkid. I want better opportunities for my daughter. I can't believe the shit I'm seeing in my research that took place during the last admin, all to do with deregulation. Especially for the oil and gas industry and the toll it is taking on the environment. It really threatens breathable air and potable water. I'm not even talking about global warming.
The left likes to portray themselves as "comprised of people with education, people who understand what's up" and the right as club fisted morons, who need to be told what to think, say, and do, but nothing could be further from the truth...
There's an old saying that goes, "Those that can, do, and those that can't, teach". You notice which group runs businesses, and built America, and which ones stay in academia. I believe that 75% of liberals actually think they know what's best for you, regardless how you feel, even tho they've remained in those sheltered hallow halls of academe, and have no clue how the real world works.
Now, back to the question, yes there were people who believed in what Jefferson wrote in his Federalist papers, and to this day believe that the federal government have lost the way a long time ago...
Section 8 of the Constitution states...
The Congress shall have power To lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts and excises, to pay the debts and provide for the common defence and general welfare of the United States; but all duties, imposts and excises shall be uniform throughout the United States.
To borrow money on the credit of the United States;
To regulate commerce with foreign nations, and among the several states, and with the Indian tribes;
To establish a uniform rule of naturalization, and uniform laws on the subject of bankruptcies throughout the United States;
To coin money, regulate the value thereof, and of foreign coin, and fix the standard of weights and measures;
To provide for the punishment of counterfeiting the securities and current coin of the United States;
To establish post offices and post roads;
To promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries;
To constitute tribunals inferior to the Supreme Court;
To define and punish piracies and felonies committed on the high seas, and offenses against the law of nations;
To declare war, grant letters of marque and reprisal, and make rules concerning captures on land and water;
To raise and support armies, but no appropriation of money to that use shall be for a longer term than two years;
To provide and maintain a navy;
To make rules for the government and regulation of the land and naval forces;
To provide for calling forth the militia to execute the laws of the union, suppress insurrections and repel invasions;
To provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining, the militia, and for governing such part of them as may be employed in the service of the United States, reserving to the states respectively, the appointment of the officers, and the authority of training the militia according to the discipline prescribed by Congress;
To exercise exclusive legislation in all cases whatsoever, over such District (not exceeding ten miles square) as may, by cession of particular states, and the acceptance of Congress, become the seat of the government of the United States, and to exercise like authority over all places purchased by the consent of the legislature of the state in which the same shall be, for the erection of forts, magazines, arsenals, dockyards, and other needful buildings;—And
To make all laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into execution the foregoing powers, and all other powers vested by this Constitution in the government of the United States, or in any department or officer thereof.
Notice it doesn't say anything about "universal health care, or social security, or medicare?
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