I’d vote for a candidate who campaigned to repeal the Second Amendment.

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    Also, America was formed because a bunch of rich, old, white guys didn’t want to pay their taxes.

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      More like a bunch of folk who were turfed out of Europe for being a bit too religiously weird

      That takes some doing in the 16th century 😂

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        I mean, that was why the pilgrims left. There were a lot of other people that came for a lot of other reasons after.

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      Yeah but maybe look at a modern written constitution. At least the guys wrote the American one had some ideals. The Canadian Charter of Rights was written by a career politician in the late 70s to specifically guarantee governmental rights, not citizens.