Lauren Boebert called the idea that the U.S. government should follow the will of the people "woke nonsense." #506
I avoid what seems to me to be a new and unconventional, possibly fad definition of the word "woke". In my suspicion (in the absence of an authoritative definition) that "woke" means enlightened, or well informed, or fully informed, I'd prefer any of those 3 alternatives. None the less:
In the maelstrom of Boebert's celebrity controversy I believe she may have blundered into a tangential but valid brush with the truth.
The Bill of Rights Article II is premised on the right of self-defense. And the Founders, those that wrote the Bill of Rights used the word "unalienable" for such fundamental rights.
To be clear, "unalienable" means "not to be separated, given away, or taken away". NOT EVEN by democratic process!
I may not agree w/ Boebert about much. But I extend to her limited support on that narrow point of human legal unalienable right.
HOWEVER:
That does not justify the metaphorical shrug of the shoulders, the indifference, to the ongoing bloodbath of our slaughtered children. Switzerland proves a civilized society can have modern military arms, WITHOUT one massacre after another.
If they can do that there, why can we not do that here?
un·al·ien·a·ble (ŭn-ālyə-nə-bəl, -ālē-ə-) adj.
Not to be separated, given away, or taken away; inalienable
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