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“No More Kings,”
Why the ‘We the People’ Logan Act online petition is unintentionally hysterical.
You know what my favorite thing is about the We the People “File charges against the 47 U.S. Senators in violation of The Logan Act in attempting to undermine a nuclear agreement” petition?
- It’s not that the author of it doesn’t understand that the Senate is explicitly empowered by the Constitution to advise and consent (which includes ‘withholding consent,’ for the benefit of progressives and other buffoons) in the matter of treaties.
- It’s not that the author of it doesn’t even understand the difference between ‘violating the Logan Act’ and ‘treason.’
- And it’s not even that every person who has signed this petition has outed him or herself as a feebleminded, pig-ignorant would-be monarchist who is absolutely desperate to abandon the responsibilities of a citizen of the Republic and instead bow his or her servile neck to a mortal king.
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“No More Kings.”
There was a particular strain of American political thought (essentially, a calm and even somewhat relaxed left-populism) that once created stuff like this. Unfortunately, those folks lost an internal partisan war in the Democratic party with the people who cheered the fall of South Vietnam.
It’s a damned shame that it all happened that way.
“No More Kings.”
Sent to me by a colleague, and damn straight.
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