Yes, I hit a mother lode of crazy.
What? The 1st Amendment? Nobody could foresee the power of the media to influence Americans when entire institution decided to become a propaganda arm of a political party.
When did this happen? Frankly, what I see is packaged news. You're a right winger, you tune in Fox. You are a left winger, you tune in MSBNC. You want in depth analysis, you watch PBS Newshour, but clearly, that doesn't have much of a market since it needs a subsidy.
FDR should have been wheeled out of the White House on his fat ass after issuing a freaking edict that called for the arrest and incarceration of American citizens without due process but with the cooperation of the media democrats made FDR a political icon.
Naw, what made FDR an icon was that he ended the Great Depression and saved the world from Fascism.
As for those Japanese-Americans who were detained (most were released after a year) That had widespread support. Nobody was pro-Japanese after Dec. 7, 1941. Think the crazy you wingnuts have unleashed on Chinese Americans, and then multiply that by about 1000.
In a couple of years democrats would come after Christian schools that were perceived as a threat to the federal education system and that was the intent of the Separation Church/State decision.
Actually, you are a little confused. THe main source of "Separation of Church and State" related to the Schools was a fellow named James Blaine. He was a noxious little Anti-Catholic bigot, who didn't want the Catholics setting up their own schools on the public dime.
Blaine amendments—19th century amendments to state constitutions—aimed to deny public funds for parochial schools and amplified the First Amendment's establishment clause.
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He wanted to add the following amendment to the Constitution.
”No state shall make any law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; and no money raised by taxation in any state for the support of public schools, or derived from any public fund therefor, nor any public lands devoted thereto, shall ever be under the control of any religious sect, nor shall any money so raised or lands so devoted be divided between religious sects or denominations.”
While this Amendment failed to pass the Senate, this kind of language was incorporated into most state constitutions.
What goes around comes around and sooner or later the government will come after the rest of us and the media will sanction it as long as a democrat is in office.
Getting a touch hysterical, aren't you?
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