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Originally Posted by detbuch

is it really necessary?

The Founders would be puking in their graves at the yearly public side-show called the State of the Union Address, and would probably regret ever inserting it into the Constitution. But, then, that would pale to them in comparison to the rest of the shredding that has occurred to their well-wrought document. That it has been inverted from a protection of hard and bloody won freedom into an excuse for an even more powerful tyranny than that against which they fought would probably give them comfort to be in their graves rather than a part of what has transpired.

Best statement on the internet ever. Well done.