DISQUS

The New Mexico Independent: It’s unpatriotic to question the U.S. Really? Since when?

  • pari · 1 year ago
    Heather really disappointed those of us who, although we didn't agree with her politics, once admired her intelligence and integrity.

    She's become a shill for the new Republican party, the one so few thinking Republicans can now support.
  • Jeeter · 1 year ago
    Heather Wilson: just another despicable GOP liar.
    But, heck, until January she's OUR despicable GOP liar!

    Heather also said: "America is a force for good in the world and has been for a century."

    What? Only a CENTURY? Why does Heather hate American behavior prior to 1908? What about ending slavery? What about stealing New Mexico from Mexico? What about Marbury vs. Madison?

    Why does Heather hate Marbury vs. Madison???
  • Thomas_James · 1 year ago
    Jeeter are you endorsing originalism now?
  • Jeeter · 1 year ago
    Nah. Originalism is just neocon cover for doing whatever they want, overturning any law they hate, selecting any president they want. Scalia and that crew are just cheap GOP policy tools. They are just like the corrupt preachers who just KNOW what the Bible says, i.e., select whatever they want it to mean and ignore anything to the contrary.

    The founding father never intended the Constitution to be the American Bible. No, I subscribe to what the other TJ - Thomas Jefferson - believed: there should be a revolution in America every twenty-five years; the Constitution thrown out, the politicans, lawyers, and judges thrown out and the new generation decides what's going to happen. It's healthy, this generational cleaning, but only if it happens regularly and with no outside interests participating. Jefferson never envisioned the internet, jet travel or global banking.

    Look at the US: the highest percentage of armed citizenry in the world and no revolution in over two hundred years. "A well-armed but cowardly militia being necessary to the continuance of a feeble and ineffective Democracy ..."

    Humbug! You can't say Jefferson failed to warn us that this would happen.
  • JOD2 · 1 year ago
    Boy. Thats dumb. THis is what the GOP has been reduced to. Simply thuggery.