{"id":439,"date":"2023-02-10T18:01:01","date_gmt":"2023-02-10T18:01:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fridaygoodnews.com\/?p=439"},"modified":"2023-02-10T18:01:01","modified_gmt":"2023-02-10T18:01:01","slug":"theyll-trash-the-constitution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fridaygoodnews.com\/?p=439","title":{"rendered":"They&#8217;ll Trash the Constitution"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Donald recently said that parts of the US Constitution are no longer valid. Since he hasn\u2019t read it, he doesn\u2019t know which parts. He just knows he has the right to be president for life if he has enough believers and enough guns.<br> <br>His Supreme Court justices verified that protections for some women\u2019s rights are no longer part of the US constitution. The far right is now calling for a constitutional convention to vandalize the whole document.<br><br>Here in Montana, we are on the leading edge of the fringe. Our constitution, the best in the world, is already being dismantled by a supermajority in our legislature. They have proposed 56 amendments so far, more than were proposed over the last 50 years put together. A leading Republican party leader called our Constitution a \u201csocialist rag.\u201d This rag protects individual privacy, provides a right to a clean a healthful environment, ensures that there are three equal branches of government, and guarantees equal rights for women, among other \u201csocialist\u201d ideas that they want to demolish.<br><br>I used to be Rusty Harper, and I used to be a member of the now defunct Montana Logging and Ballet Company. One of the former members, Steve Garnaas-Holmes, wrote a song expressing our unhappiness with what is happening in Montana (and the US). Former member Tim Holmes put together a homemade video using just his and Steve\u2019s phones. Here it is. Call us a zombie group, temporarily back from the dead to stimulate the brains of the living.<br><br><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/HeWWCUyvuQE\">https:\/\/youtu.be\/HeWWCUyvuQE<\/a><br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Donald recently said that parts of the US Constitution are no longer valid. Since he hasn\u2019t read it, he doesn\u2019t know which parts. He just knows he has the right to be president for life if he has enough &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/fridaygoodnews.com\/?p=439\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fridaygoodnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/fridaygoodnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/fridaygoodnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fridaygoodnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fridaygoodnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/fridaygoodnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fridaygoodnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fridaygoodnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fridaygoodnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}