Know Your Rights
Cheering on armed forces to suppress Constitutional rights - is there anything more American than that?
Dumb
Today is Constitution Day, commemorating the day our US Constitution was signed in 1787.
But many won’t know that. Because US knowledge is sorely lacking.
The Annenberg Public Policy Center’s annual, nationally representative survey showed that less than half of US adults could name all three branches of the US government.
Less than 1/4 of people could cite Freedom of Religion as one of the five freedoms protected by the First Amendment. While over half incorrectly believed that the First Amendment requires Facebook to allow them to express themselves freely on its platform.
https://www.annenbergpublicpolicycenter.org/americans-civics-knowledge-drops-on-first-amendment-and-branches-of-government/
Education, knowledge, and expertise are under attack in our country. Whether it’s untrained parents who feel they should decide school curriculum over trained educators. Or the Michigan town threatening to defund the library because they don’t like certain books there. Don’t even start on the pushes to ban books across several states and towns.
Many people have long said that America would not be defeated by outside enemies, but rather threatened from internal strife and divisions.
Unfortunately, I fear America is just going to dumb itself to death.
Clarence Thomas
In overturning Roe v Wade, Justice Clarence Thomas argues that the Court should also revisit other previously-settled laws that affect the rights to contraception, same sex relationships, and same sex marriage, all of which are based on the 14th Amendment.
He did not address Loving v Virginia, which set the precedent that the 14th Amendment’s due process and privacy clause give the right to interracial marriage.
We’ve all become acutely aware of his wife, Ginni Thomas - a white woman - from the release of many of her text messages to Mark Meadows and other White House staff in trying to overturn the 2020 election and supporting the January 6 insurrection at the Capitol.
Perhaps he’s ok with revisiting that one after all, though?
C’mon, it’s satire.
