Political Humor

i hope their heart is doing okay. i heard its been going out recently

"It's only the foundational principle of our supposed democracy. Don't you know we only pay lip service to it, it's not actually in force."

Yes, there is an enormous contradiction between the declared ideology and actual policy in practice, I'm unironically glad you pointed that out. On the same hand, the constitution makes slavery legal, so maybe we should stop giving that fucking document so much god damned credit. None of our supposed rights are actually in force unless they are enforced. If nobody else is enforcing your rights for you, who does that leave to enforce the rights if you think you want them? I think it's time we remember that the law is made up and it does whatever whoever is in charge of enforcing says it does.

Maybe you've noticed, but the single guy who has decided he is currently in charge of deciding what rights we are supposed to have is just making whatever bullshit rights up for himself off the top of his head, whatever is convenient to his purpose, without bothering to refer to legal precedent or the constitution, very frequently in direct contradiction of those. It's working for him. Fantastically well. Let's stop asking permission for these rights as if we weren't supposed to be the ones from which the consent for government is supposed to be derived in the first place.

"Of the people, by the people, for the people;" I think that's not an unreasonable (and constitutionally precedented if that's important to you) right to substitute for the supposed right to life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness they teach us about in our state-mandated public education.

Also, I've heard this bit before about not a legal document not an actual right, has anyone ever actually tried to argue, in court, that eg we don't have the right to be alive? Isn't that already covered by like, murder law? what about labour/penal law for liberty and the rights to eg free assembly, free expression, freedom of religion for happiness? Don't we have this right to life, liberty, and happiness de facto, or didn't most of us have a reasonable facsimile up until relatively recently? Aren't those laws/rights precisely the specific enumeration of the various ways we have our life, liberty, and happiness enshrined (or restricted, as in the notorious case of labour rights in america) as rights in the law?

christ there's so many fucking contradictions. the whole system is held together with load bearing institutional loyalty and good faith it's a wonder it took this long to collaps.