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Finally liberals are realizing that the constitution is just a piece of paper and can’t actually enforce anything. I had a political science professor who told us that any paper or exam that said that the government “can’t” do something, would get an automatic F, he said that the government is nothing but the diplomatic wing to avoid using the definition of government power… which is the monopoly on the “legitimate” use of force. Things can be unpopular, not worth pursuing, or better done via other means, but no piece of paper anywhere can block the government’s thugs from saying, “RULES CHANGED, ASSHOLE, NOW OBEY OR DIE.”
lol the fetishization of the constitution is so cringe in liberal democracies.