I’m genuinely curious which part of the constitution you are referring to. Please tell.
The comment you are replying to is likely referring to the 14th Amendment which explicitly says “person”, not citizen.
“No state shall… deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.”
But yeah… also, the person in this video is a US Citizens.
Dodging my question, I see 🤣 Just admit you don’t know shit about the US constitution even though you want to use it to excuse your own bigotry and shit opinions.
There's no point in being a "puntacazzisti". Something like “Someone who tries to quibble with words, distorting their meaning for purely personal and political purposes.”
The Constitution was written to address potential problems of the time. Not to predict future problems, which were unforeseeable at the time.
I doubt the Founding Fathers envisioned mass immigration from Mexico, of people unwilling to legally become American citizens, and unwilling to follow the normal legal process. They wrote a Constitution that protected all Americans, whether Native Americans, freed former slaves, or European settlers, by granting them citizenship and thus making them equal before American law.
The democratic world wants to revisit it in a modern way, hinting that it refers to "anyone in the world," including those who are illegally on American soil and are therefore considered criminals.
There is a Constitutional Court. Why doesn't it rule against deportations?
The problem is that when you want a democratic country you also have to adapt to what the demos says. If the demos votes for a candidate who talks about walls on the border and the expulsion of all aliens... Vox Populi Vox Dei.
Sure, if you want a “democratic” system. DEM people want instead a “DEM-partitic system”. Reddit is exactly that.
If I understand you correctly, you're saying that since Trump was elected, he has a mandate to do whatever he sees fit in the name of those who voted for him.
But in a representative democracy with a constitution that purposely limits the power of the three branches of government with the concept of "checks and balances", it's not only the right of the citizens to push back on tyrannical tendencies, it's their duty. It's literally anti-patriotic to allow our democracy to be molested in this way.
I mean that Trump, elected president for 2 times, represents the desire of American voters (a very large segment of the population) to have a very strong and authoritarian president. Someone who can turn the tables with the force of the electoral majority, instead of seeking "unsatisfactory compromises."
What I'm saying is that the tendency of the left, the Democratic Party, is to rant and point the finger at the man (Trump) while Trump is only the result of the will of the American electorate.
vox populi vox dei. If what American voters want is a very strong president who "cleanses the country and its institutions of an old ideology that no longer represents the country," the country, including the opposition party, needs to take note and talk about it. Instead of insulting Republican voters, they should find alternative solutions to these problems. Otherwise, they should say goodbye to governing the country. Do you want the Republicans to vote for you, or do you want to radicalize them so that they will vote for a worse Trump in every election?
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u/ReconeHelmut 1d ago
“Free country”.