Thomas Paine and the American tradition

[Egalitarian Thug]

12. Yeah, that kind of misses the point though, doesn't it?

The whole point was that the the rights are, and the Constitution simply acknowledges what is.

As far as this arc thing goes, if there is such a thing, I mean beyond a series treatment being pitched to an executive, it is not so much an arc as a flat line representing a concerted effort to conceal what is still going on.

Women's right to vote has been reluctantly recognized most places, as has the right for people of differing races, but here in what we like to pretend is a democracy, that right is restricted to the right to vote for whom the rulers decide we can vote for. So what we're really talking about is the right to choose which face we would rather see beating us. Hardly the future envisioned by Paine, Franklin, Adams, Jefferson, et al.