Clarence Thomas announced that he doesn't care about precedent and is making it up as he goes along. He didn't say it *like that* of course, because then people would have noticed. But I noticed, through the jargon, and explain it here in @thenation thenation.com/article/societ…

You want to tear up and redo the constitution dopey. You’re hardly one to talk.

You don't think we should write a Constitution with input from women and Black people this time? How quaint.

You’re picking this exact moment in time to do it? Then we’ll rewrite it in five years. And another. And on and on. It’s all we have. Don’t those tinpot dictatorships rewrite their constitutions constantly too?

I actually don't want to rewrite the Constitution right now, and I've never said that I do. You think that I want that because you have only heard of me (probably through the lens of other whtie folks) instead of reading what I actually write.

The person who wanted to rewrite the constitution every 25 years was the slaver's hero Thomas Jefferson. I think Jefferson was wrong about that, and most things.

What I have said is that *other* countries that overcame apartheid did rewrite their constitutions, instead of using the white apartheid one as the base and tacking on a few amendments. That's what we *should have done* after the civil war, but whites didn't want to.

I’m glad we didn’t follow Jefferson’s suggestion. I actually saw you on the view. I’ve seen you on msnbc for years. I may have misinterpreted your view slightly but my point still stands that if your position is that the constitution is garbage…

… and it *should've* been rewritten it’s rich of you to constantly bash Clarence Thomas. That’s all.

See, Rusty, if you read things instead of merely watching things, you'd know that IN THIS VERY ARTICLE YOU ARE COMMENTING ON... I actually *agree* with Thomas' position here. :)

I’m out of free nation articles for the month. It feels awfully nihilistic that the constitution *should've* been rewritten, it’s terrible, it’s racist, laws are racist, capitalism is horrible, government is horrible, thomas is horrible, etc.. I mean what are we doing here?

A slaver's Constitution that was written exclusively by rich white men during a time where women and people of color did not have political or civil rights *should have been rewritten* and that's not actually a controversial position to take.

It’s really a shame that our founders did not share 2025 values 250 years ago. Your worldview is so nihilistic and cynical. I appreciate you engaging though elie. My brother as cornel west would say. Hopefully you don’t think I’m a white supremacist.