Katharine Valentino
1 min readMay 15, 2022

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Thanks for your thoughtful and reasonable comments. To counter your assertions and answer your questions:

1) We do presently have an implicit—but not explicit--right to vote. However, ask yourself if the very, very rich really want us to vote. Wonder at how much they've spent to put certain people on the Supreme Court. And then ask yourself how much longer we will have this right. I don't expect that the right to vote will be the first right taken away from us, but if we can't protect our freedoms somehow, eventually….

2) The right to keep and bear arms has been interpreted by some scholars to mean what it says only in relationship to the "well-armed militia" referred to in the same paragraph. I don’t expect that the very, very rich will take that right from us until and unless we object too strenuously—with guns—to having various other rights taken away.

3) The rights that are explicitly stated in the Constitution are already being ignored by state governments where gerrymandering and other underhandedness have put Republicans in charge. The first examples we're seeing of this are laws limiting abortion. But abortion is just the canary in the gold mine.

Just think what big business, big media, big politicians and very big rich men can do if they set their minds to it.

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Katharine Valentino
Katharine Valentino

Written by Katharine Valentino

Still trying for the words to help us do & feel good things. Owner of Reviews for Medium Featured Books. I write life stories & about politics / social issues.

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