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Can you expand on what you mean by 'The country is constitutionally designed to live in perpetual tension with itself'? Let's also not lose sight of the fake v

• miguelazo 4y ago
  Thank you-- the CIA's fake vaccine operation should be in the first or second paragraph of every article that discusses polio outbreaks. It has had a huge effect on public health.
• swatcoder 4y ago
  The Declaration of Independence and Constitution establish that all governments are vulnerable to becoming tyrannical, and the Bill of Rights establishes that people have specific rights that supersede the sovereign bodies that govern them. It insists on the government providing allowance for rights that may be used against it. You can say that's a good and admirable thing, but it also takes a revolutionary tension between people and government and structures into the national identity.
  • retox 4y ago
    Thank you.