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ORIGINAL: Musicmystery

Or, a drunken junior Senator and a power-hungry Vice-President, supported by a new Conservative movement from The Family, needed a manufactured scare to (1) suppress the voice of their opposition and (2) stir up a sense of urgency for political wind in their sails.

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ORIGINAL: jlf1961

You know, they made a movie about a country like what the religious right and conservatives want. It was called "V for Vendetta" Good movie, especially when the masses rose up against the religious and political leaders.

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ORIGINAL: jlf1961

You know, they made a movie about a country like what the religious right and conservatives want. It was called "V for Vendetta" Good movie, especially when the masses rose up against the religious and political leaders.

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The Handmaid's Tale is set in the near future in the Republic of Gilead, a country formed within the borders of what was formerly the United States of America. It was founded by a racist, male chauvinist, nativist, theocratic-organized military coup as an ideologically driven response to the pervasive ecological, physical and social degradation of the country.

Beginning with a staged terrorist attack (blamed on Islamic extremist terrorists) that kills the President and most of Congress, a movement calling itself the "Sons of Jacob" launched a revolution and suspended the United States Constitution under the pretext of restoring order.

Taking advantage of electronic banking, they were quickly able to freeze the assets of all women and other "undesirables" in the country, stripping them of their rights. The new theocratic military dictatorship, styled "The Republic of Gilead", moved quickly to consolidate its power and reorganize society along a new militarized, hierarchical, compulsorily Christian regime of Old Testament-inspired social and religious orthodoxy among its newly created social classes.

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ORIGINAL: kdsub

Our forefathers were so wise...they realized that any free system of government needed to be able to change to match the needs and mores of the times. They managed either by genius or luck to make a Constitution that allowed this change through interpretation of basic principles. They would have approved of In God we trust...and Under God. The ability of the Constitution to bend to the will of the people while still keeping the structure that assured change in the future I believe was their goal.

We will change again and again...sometimes for the better and sometimes for the worst...but the wisdom in our governments creation is the ability to change and remain a Democracy.

So lighten up...The Constitution was right in 1776...1782... 1954...1956...and it will work today and tomorrow. You may not agree with a change but the majority will.

Butch

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I actually never said anything about agreeing with it or not

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ORIGINAL: Musicmystery
The point is correcting an often repeated flatly incorrect assertion used to promote an agenda today.

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ORIGINAL: MrBukani

Maybe I shudda said equality instead of freedom.
But its the same differnce to me.

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ORIGINAL: Real0ne

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ORIGINAL: MrBukani

Maybe I shudda said equality instead of freedom.
But its the same differnce to me.

well freedom really means "not slave" which is "construed" in aristocracy land (the world), to mean "franchised" with allegiance under a "sovereign" (monarch, or entity with the power of monarch).

Like God v atheism it is full left and full right and no inbetween.

You are either in chains breaking rocks or you are in chains to the sovereign. Look at the british coat of arms to see a graphical representation of it.

there is no such thing as equality either, especially in law since law is purchased and definitely not because you are born bareassed unless heredity is abolished AND the existing treaties be they corporeal or incorporeal.