Republicans Have A Plan To Change The Constitution-And Just May Work

You have sunk your teeth into the craziest leftwing tripe I have seen recently
He is working at a troll farm.

Up until the primaries in 2016, he was all about "regressives", which he repeated in nearly every post. Once the candidates were selected, he switched his word to ""Trumpsters" which he repeats ad nauseum as well.

You see, Bernie was the biggest threat to Hillary and the establishment going into 2016. But Trump became the target once elected.

He is now showing complete solidarity with all these zombie maniacs he used to dismiss as "regressives".
 
If you think the Supreme Court overturning abortion rights in this country was radical and shocking, you ain’t seen nothing yet. There was a convention you should know about this past weekend in Denver, funded by some of the wealthiest men and foundations in America, that has received altogether too little publicity.

Imagine if most public schools in the country closed and were replaced by for-profit charter and private academies — often racially segregated and only serving families who could afford their tuition — because the Constitution required federal compulsory education laws and federal funding for education (at all levels) to end.

Imagine if the U.S. Constitution required the EPA, FDA, USDA, DOT, Department of Education, and Department of Labor to shut down. All union protections are dead, there are no more federal workplace safety standards, and even child-labor laws are struck down, along with the national minimum wage and the income tax, both individual and corporate.

Imagine that the Constitution makes it illegal for the federal government to protect you from big polluters, big banks, and even big food and pharma—all are free to rip you off or poison you all they want, and your only remedy is in state courts and legislatures, because the Constitution prevents Congress from doing anything about any of it. The federal government can no longer even enforce voting or civil rights laws.

Imagine if Citizens United and its position that political bribery is merely a First Amendment exercise of “free speech” were put into the US Constitution so it can never be overturned by Congress or a future court, meaning that whichever political candidate has the backing of the wealthiest donors pretty much wins every election for the rest of American history.

Imagine, to add injury to insult, that the federal government has shut down Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid, because all of these programs (along with food stamps, Pell grants, housing supports, and any programs that help the middle class, the less fortunate, or disabled) are “beyond the reach” of what the federal government can do because they’re now unconstitutional.

A few years ago, it would have been a thought experiment; now it’s nearly reality. Billionaires and the groups they fund are working to rewrite our Constitution to provide corporations and the rich with more and more protections and benefits while chopping away at anything smelling of “socialism” like Social Security or child labor laws that could tax billionaires or reduce their profits.

This scenario was one possible outcome of the agenda of the “Academy of States” meeting held this past Sunday at the Hyatt Regency at the Denver Convention Center. Republican state legislators from across the country were invited to attend.

If their plan works, they’ll rewrite our Constitution and state governors, the US Congress, and the President will have no say whatsoever in the process. Only state legislatures are necessary, according to Article V of the Constitution, and governors can’t veto their actions.


Then comes the pendulum swing where Article V is completely removed from the Constitution, and state legislatures have no say about anything.

This should have been done immediately following the Civil War.


HAd to stop reading where your post started bringing up racial segregation in charter schools.... the rest is going to be just as factually INACCURATE. You know who really does a disservice to minority students dont you? year after year of education failure? Fix the problem if you love it so much.
I can never understand liberals who are so against giving people hope of a better life when they claim the opposite.


"The UCLA study used a deeply flawed methodology (convincingly debunked here), comparing the demographic composition of charter schools with that of the nation as a whole, entire states, and large metropolitan areas. Charter schools tend to be located in low-income, high-minority neighborhoods, where conventional public schools have few if any white students. It is true that black students in urban charter schools have fewer white classmates than black students in suburban district schools, but the black students in urban charter schools typically have no access to suburban district schools. The relevant comparison is to charter students’ local options, which are often quite segregated themselves. Comparing charter schools to the nearest district-operated schools dramatically reduces the average differences, making the story far more complex, with wide variations in different communities and different schools."

The Associated Press report repeated the error of the UCLA study, drawing highly misleading conclusions by failing to account for the characteristics of the communities that charter schools serve. As noted above, a better comparison would be to the conventional public schools in the same neighborhoods where the charters operate. Alternately, we could assess how charter schools affect segregation by examining changes in students’ exposure to students of other races/ethnicities as enrollments in charter schools and district schools change. My colleagues and I gathered longitudinal, student-level data in seven locations across the country (two states and five large cities), so that we could examine how students’ exposure to others of the same and different racial/ethnic groups changed when they transferred into charter schools.

We found variation across communities, but mostly small differences. On average, black students and white students tended to transfer to charter schools with slightly higher concentrations of their own race (4 percentage points higher for black students and 1 percentage point higher for white students), but Latinx students tended to transfer to charter schools with slightly lower concentrations (6 percentage points) of their own ethnicity. Students transferring to charter schools were not generally seeing dramatically different peers—and the differences sometimes increased exposure to other groups rather than reduced it.


 
If you think the Supreme Court overturning abortion rights in this country was radical and shocking, you ain’t seen nothing yet. There was a convention you should know about this past weekend in Denver, funded by some of the wealthiest men and foundations in America, that has received altogether too little publicity.

Imagine if most public schools in the country closed and were replaced by for-profit charter and private academies — often racially segregated and only serving families who could afford their tuition — because the Constitution required federal compulsory education laws and federal funding for education (at all levels) to end.

Imagine if the U.S. Constitution required the EPA, FDA, USDA, DOT, Department of Education, and Department of Labor to shut down. All union protections are dead, there are no more federal workplace safety standards, and even child-labor laws are struck down, along with the national minimum wage and the income tax, both individual and corporate.

Imagine that the Constitution makes it illegal for the federal government to protect you from big polluters, big banks, and even big food and pharma—all are free to rip you off or poison you all they want, and your only remedy is in state courts and legislatures, because the Constitution prevents Congress from doing anything about any of it. The federal government can no longer even enforce voting or civil rights laws.

Imagine if Citizens United and its position that political bribery is merely a First Amendment exercise of “free speech” were put into the US Constitution so it can never be overturned by Congress or a future court, meaning that whichever political candidate has the backing of the wealthiest donors pretty much wins every election for the rest of American history.

Imagine, to add injury to insult, that the federal government has shut down Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid, because all of these programs (along with food stamps, Pell grants, housing supports, and any programs that help the middle class, the less fortunate, or disabled) are “beyond the reach” of what the federal government can do because they’re now unconstitutional.

A few years ago, it would have been a thought experiment; now it’s nearly reality. Billionaires and the groups they fund are working to rewrite our Constitution to provide corporations and the rich with more and more protections and benefits while chopping away at anything smelling of “socialism” like Social Security or child labor laws that could tax billionaires or reduce their profits.

This scenario was one possible outcome of the agenda of the “Academy of States” meeting held this past Sunday at the Hyatt Regency at the Denver Convention Center. Republican state legislators from across the country were invited to attend.

If their plan works, they’ll rewrite our Constitution and state governors, the US Congress, and the President will have no say whatsoever in the process. Only state legislatures are necessary, according to Article V of the Constitution, and governors can’t veto their actions.


Then comes the pendulum swing where Article V is completely removed from the Constitution, and state legislatures have no say about anything.

This should have been done immediately following the Civil War.
Wow, raw story! What a find! Anti conservative BS from a whacked out delusional left wing opinion piece.

What an amazing find!

Now look at all the Regressives jump on it, you can’t make this stupidity up.
 
I'd be ok with that. It sounds a whole lot better than what the progressives plan to do with the world economic forum and esg scores, both of which are actually real and not rawstory tabloid news trash.
 

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