<\/a>It is not inaccurate to say this battle began more than 80 years ago with FDR and the New Deal. The wealthy have been waiting a long time to get their revenge. Now it seems their quest is about to meet with success. They may win the battle, but by doing so, they will return America to being the insular irrelevancy it was in 1930.<\/p>\nThe goal of the \u201coriginalists\u201d in the judicial system is not to make\u00a0 America great again, but to make it the way it was in the beginning when African Americans were counted as 3\/5 of a person, women were subservient to men, and white males ruled with impunity. That\u2019s how America was originally and seems to be what John Roberts and company are aiming to make it again while taking a wrecking ball to the idea of personal liberty. He and his henchmen are bound and determined to destroy America in order to save it.<\/p>\n
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