Convention of States: The Right Wing Takeover Has Only Just Begun.
Unf*cking The Republic
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🗓️ 14 May 2022
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
For decades, right wing actors have been steadily tearing apart critical protections of our democracy and stacking the deck in their favor. Civil rights and liberties that were hard fought and then eventually assumed have slowly disappeared. Voting rights. Privacy. Worker projections. Economic mobility. And soon, as we now know, people’s rights to their own bodies. Nothing happens overnight and the process has been slow, steady and painful because the right wing in America is deliberate, organized and patient. Today we examine yet another long-term, right wing attempt to hijack the political system called a Convention of States. Libertarian conservatives have been playing a long chess game while Democrats and liberals have been playing checkers.
Chapters
Intro: 00:00:51
Chapter One: So what the fuck is this thing? 00:02:59
Chapter Two: What’s the end game here? 00:10:24
Chapter Three: Um, is this what the framers intended? 00:15:59
Chapter Four: We might need more states. 00:23:21
Chapter Five: Bring it home, Max. 00:32:50
Outro: 00:56:01
Resources
Common Cause: The Dangerous Path- Big Money’s Plan to Shred the Constitution
SourceWatch: Convention of States Action
Planned Parenthood: Griswold v. Connecticut
The Guardian: In 2013 the supreme court gutted voting rights – how has it changed the US?
UNFTR Episode Resources
Libertarians Are Exhausting (Part I).
Libertarians Are Exhausting (Part II).
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| 0:00.0 | Unfucking the Republic is sponsored by insane level members W. Jeremy D. Tam Jam, Sam C., Ryan F., Rob Nasby, Prof G., Nick G., and Cassie LM, Nathan Seirst, Nathan Second, Nathan E, Michelle H, and Matthew. |
| 0:20.6 | This is not a test. |
| 0:22.8 | This is your emergency broadcast system announcing the commencement of the annual purge sanctioned by the U.S. government. |
| 0:29.9 | Blessed be our new founding fathers and America, a nation reborn. |
| 0:34.3 | May God be with you all. |
| 0:51.3 | No. Reborn, may God be with you all. So you're going to think this is uncharacteristically hysterical on my part, because the subject |
| 0:57.1 | today, while hiding in plain sight in the Constitution, has been essentially unimaginable |
| 1:01.9 | since it was first conceived. Something called a convention of states, but bear with me, |
| 1:06.9 | because you need to hear this. We have turned the Constitution of the United States |
| 1:11.7 | into, instead of a charter of liberty |
| 1:14.0 | and a document designed to limit the power of government |
| 1:17.1 | to its delegated powers, |
| 1:18.4 | we have turned the Constitution into essentially a bill |
| 1:22.1 | that allows government to do anything |
| 1:23.5 | except for these few specific areas |
| 1:25.3 | where you say you're kind of not allowed to do that. |
| 1:26.7 | It's a complete reversal of what government was supposed to be. And that is why a convention of states |
| 1:31.3 | is so necessary. That's Ben Shapiro speaking remotely to a gathering of advocates in support of |
| 1:37.1 | the Convention of States movement. Hopefully, that gave you enough douche chills to settle in an |
| 1:42.0 | eavesdrop on a scenario that was once considered a long shot, |
| 1:46.0 | and now has a mathematical chance to actually happen, let's say, within the next decade. |
| 1:52.0 | And if you're thinking, oh, a decade is a lot, remember that a decade ago, gay marriage wasn't legal yet, |
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