[rant][self therapy]
I'm still somewhat shocked to this day by how idiotic the majority of the people in this country truly are. Gone are the days of the moderately educated but highly paranoid and suspicious American.
The American who thinks carefully (such as Tom Davis on here, who with simple common sense thoughts, should have enlightened those of you out in left field had you the minimal intelligence to process what he is saying), would realize an act like this is random and the effort expended to try and reduce the odds of it happening in the future, are actually not worth the cost.
Most of you are fat, gullible, and looking for your next handout/TSA security theatrics. It saddens me to say it, but it is true, even on a trading site which should be the bastion of free thought. If you are looking to our government to solve your problems, you need to seek another domicile. The foundation of this nation is built on anti-government principles. It really is as simple as "That government which governs least, governs best". This is historical fact. It's not for everybody, it is for 75% of the country, which is why it is in the constitution. The other 25% are intentionally marginalized!
Were our founding fathers perfect, honorable men who could see 250+ years into the future as many right wing people allude? Probably not. Most of them were probably anything but. Particularly as you can consider the original articles of confederation, as well as the original constitution (pre-bill of rights, pre-many of our amendments we now take for granted) were certainly dodgy bits of work.
One thing is for certain. They were paranoid as hell about the monarchies of Europe and their underlying power structure
coming back and infecting us how they did with many of what are now "Commonwealth" countries.
Many a clever person realizes that, in a democracy, most of the time you just need to buy a simple (voting) majority to get what you want. This is particularly easy when you have a fat, gullible, and handout-seeking portion of the populace (and their elected representatives) that are forever growing.
With all of this in mind, we have something uniquely designed to deal with these fatal flaws of democracy, and that is the MOTHERFU%(ING CONSTITUTION.
"But TD80! It's just a piece of paper!" WRONG. It is a set of IDEALS which if half of you retards would stop being so concerned about "winning" an argument and realize that both political parties have been and will always be co-opted by special interests, it is the only damn thing keeping you out of fascist shackles. I suggest many of you think about what happens when the government you think you want to empower to serve you eventually becomes the government that WILL ENSLAVE YOU, I GUARANGODAMNTEE-IT and I have the historical precedents to back it up, just as our founding fathers did...
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