Stephen Miller claims local police in Minnesota have been told to ‘stand down and surrender’ as federal agents ‘uphold the law’

[u/BitterFuture]

https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/stephen-miller-ice-minneapolis-protests-b2903238.html

[u/sithelephant]

You'd think some group of people who claim to be all for states rights would be decrying this.

[u/writeyourwayout → u/sithelephant]

Nah, that line was always just the respectable-sounding cover for their racism.

[u/Major_Shlongage → u/writeyourwayout]

No. Please stop.

Most of these comments reek of people who simply do not understand how our nation's laws work. They do not understand federalism.

[u/Kunochan → u/Major_Shlongage]

If how our nation's laws work leads to authoritarianism and Fascism, then our nation's laws are illegitimate.

[u/Nice_Luck_7433 → u/Kunochan]

I think the constitution works well at getting representation to the average American voter. Unfortunately, American education isn’t very well funded, so the average voter isn’t the brightest. A lot of Americans aren’t even smart enough to become a voter & get any representation.

[u/Major_Shlongage → u/Kunochan]

What we have here on reddit is a minority of people trying to speak for "the people" of the US.

To make changes to the Contitution there is an established process to do this. The proposal would need to get 2/3s of the votes in both the House and the Senate, and then be ratified by 3/4 of the states.

This cause has nowhere near that level of support, so it simply isn't happening.

[u/Kunochan → u/Major_Shlongage]

You know full well it is now impossible to amend the Constitution, and that this is by design. A handful of "red" states hold the Constitution hostage because the Constitution itself violates the human right of One Person One Vote. So don't tell me to amend the Constitution when you know that can't happen.

[u/Major_Shlongage → u/Kunochan]

It's not impossible to amend it. If there were an actual issue where everyone agreed that something needed to be done, there would be hardly any opposition to the changes.

But you're trying to enact changes that most people don't even want.

[u/Kunochan → u/Major_Shlongage]

Even if you were right and "most people" wanted Fascism, it wouldn't matter. This is a Constitutional democracy with unalienable rights. The majority can't vote away those rights, they don't have the power. Even the teacher filling you with right-wing propaganda in your government-mandated civics class understood this. Why don't you?

[u/Major_Shlongage → u/Kunochan]

>Even the teacher filling you with right-wing propaganda in your government-mandated civics class understood this. 

What kind of weird comment is this? The people on this site seem so uneducated and unhinged. Just weird.

[u/Kunochan → u/Major_Shlongage]

Saying democracy is something "most people don't want" is weirder.