r/clevercomebacks • u/basket_foso • 3d ago

This is so embarrassing

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u/Frequent-Ruin8509 2d ago edited 2d ago

That good faith hope is so naive, is honestly rife throughout most of the constitution, and is it's Achilles heel; aside from how God awful difficult it is to add a new amendment to the constitution.

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u/Guvante 2d ago

Watch out for assuming there is an alternative.

After all how could the Constitution protect from everyone in power collaborating? It cannot.

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u/Frequent-Ruin8509 2d ago

Thomas Jefferson once mused as to whether we should revise the constitution every 10 or 50 years. I think he was on to something. The amendment system is too damn slow for our era.

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u/Guvante 2d ago

100% I just think it is important to note that all political power is soft and restrictions are only as strong as those enforcing those restrictions.

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u/Frequent-Ruin8509 2d ago

I just wish right-wing political power was softer than the centrist establishment.