Look who's proposing Constitutional amendments.

[Capitalocracy]

The 14th Amendment controversy. So the lunatic fringe of a marginal, irrelevant minority party is proposing amendments to the Constitution which, of course, require a Constitutional majority to pass... amendments which go against everything our nation stands for based on talking points that clearly originated with neo-Nazis.

And there are people who take them seriously, give them air time, and who knows, maybe they'll even get it done.

Discuss.

[BrklynLiberal]

1. 2/3 of the House 2/3 of the Senate and 3/4 of the states must approve an amendment to the

Constitution.

[gratuitous]

2. It's August, aka the silly season

You're right, though; how this loony idea is getting any air at all is beyond explanation. Maybe some cute blonde girl will have a hangnail, and this "controversy" can go back to the madly percolating nitwit think tanks whence it came.

[Realityhack]

3. I doubt they will get it done but I think you have a good point about...

them being taken seriously. I guess something similar must have existed around each advance in civil rights where insane bigots and their twisted views of how others 'impacted their rights' were taken seriously but not having lived though that it feels bazaar.

More than anything it has made me loose any remaining respect for news outlets. Not because they are presenting the arguments made by a significantly sized group (that is news) but because the commentators and interviewers can't separate utter BS from highly reasoned legal/moral argumentation and can't ask an intelligent question to save their lives.

[damntexdem]

4. Instead of discussing this, I think I'll take a constitutional.

;-)