Link: Seven Ways Rick Perry Wants To Change The Constitution

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Go ahead and read the list.  Seriously, read it.  Have you read it?  Let me tell you, if you don’t see a problem with any of this, you’re an un-American asshole.  Let me explain to you why:‎

1 & 2) “Abolish lifetime tenure for judges & allow Congress to overrule Supreme Court rulings.” This destroys the division of powers our Founding Fathers established. Judges should only be beholden to the law and to the Constitution, not to Congress or the people, because people are always eager to trample on the rights of anyone who’s in the minority.  People lose their tempers, people get upset, people are easy to manipulate and deceive into supporting horrible ideas.  Ever heard that joke, what do nine out of ten people enjoy? A gang-rape?  Well, if you put our judges in a position where they have to ignore the law and the Constitution in order to appease the majority, you’re going to be metaphorically raped and lose a lot of your rights.

3) “Abolish Income Tax.”  This sounds cool if you only think about it for half a second.  Problem is, how does Perry intend to collect the money the government needs? A Federal sales tax? This benefits the enormously wealthy while putting so much more of our tax burden on folks like you and me, who have to spend most of our paychecks to buy things we need to survive.

4) “State legislators, not the people, should vote for Senators.”  Does that sound like democracy to you? Why shouldn’t I be allowed to vote for my state’s senators?  These guys are corrupt enough as it is, do you think they’ll behave better if you put another layer of protection between them and my vote?

5) “The Federal Government should be required to pass a balanced budget every year.”  This one also sounds cool, especially with the mess we’re in now, but you must understand that sometimes you need to go in debt. How do you think we could afford to fight and win World War Two?  America chose to shoulder an enormous debt-load in order to defeat the Nazis.  Debt sucks, but sometimes it’s the only way to invest in yourself. I’ve got a stack of student loans right now, but my college degree helped me find a job in the middle of this recession, so maybe going into debt wasn’t such a bad idea, right?

6) “A Constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriages.”  This is just homophobic bullshit, and fuck you if you thought this sounded like a good idea.  The majority of Americans support Gay Marriage, and isn’t it funny that a Republican candidate wants a Constitutional Amendment to forbid it, moments after he proposes eviscerating the Supreme Court?  Don’t you get it?  Perry wants the Supreme Court under his thumb, to do his bidding.  Doesn’t that frighten you?

7) “Ban abortion, too.”  What the hell happened to a woman’s right to choose? I’m no fan of abortion—I was raised Catholic—but I also realize that it’s none of my goddamn business, it’s a decision best left to the woman carrying the baby!  Whatever happened to the great American virtue of minding your own goddamn business?  Why is it the GOP—who we’ve always been told was the party of “small government”—wants so badly to intrude on our personal lives?