When some rights you should have aren't given to you, you need to do something to make sure you take them.

If only the US had integrated the Universal Declaration of Human Rights into law. It's only 78 years old. Guess they haven't had time yet.

Article 25

Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself and of his family, including food, clothing, housing and medical care and necessary social services,

What exactly do Americans have the right to...?

Oh, it was a conservative deciding this. This tracks.

Elections have consequences, everyone who stayed home and allowed Trump to be elected to two terms has enabled this.

I honestly don’t know if the US will actually be able to recover from those 6 (and counting) years, as an Aussie it feels like we’re watching the equivalent of the Fall of Rome in real time.

That bastard has managed to isolate you from your allies, line his pockets with billions of dollars, nearly bankrupt your country, destroy your military credibility, pollute your water, air & food, roll back your rights, and so much more.

It will take at least a generation to undo this damage, and I don’t think there’s enough political will to do what would need to be done to arrest this decline.

You will likely fall into oligarchy, to become another Russia in my lifetime. Just another regional brute, living off the fear and intimidation you were able to impose on your glory years.

Then what is the point of governance?

In some parts of the world, people are thinking about UBI.

In other parts of the world, having safe drinking water is put into question.

Ofc not. This colony was founded by literal enslavers. It's hard to enslave a comfortable population with their basic needs met. No water, no food, no shelter, no healthcare... Instead it's "freeze peach" and corporate personhood.

Yeah lets wrap this US gov up at this point. No right to clean water and the truth lol.

That is some 3rd World shit right there. Hire a plumber to reroute that asswipe's water supply.

"Oh look at me, I'm an entitled American. I want water to drink and to not be lied to. Wha Wha Wha"

You give people this and they'll start asking for healthcare next instead of just dying in the street with pride.

Bunch of greedy entitled fucks.

It falls under the life part of consti rights, he's obtuse.

Says right here, "Life, liberty, pursuit of happiness."

Without clean water there's no life. With no life, there's no liberty, and no pursuing happiness.

How do you "promote the general welfare" with filthy, poisonous water?

This is like the most fundamental thing, even Rome provided clean water. We've been surpassed by ancient Rome.

Well if judges had the right to not be harassed and have their houses burned, it would be in the constitution too!

Because fuck the common good, right?

"We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America."

Opening line of the Constitution. Pretty sure anything bold could be applied to safe, clean drinking water.

the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals

The judges there regularly issue decisions so far right even SCOTUS won't get on board. "Fifth Circuit" really ought to be in the headline of articles about their ridiculous decisions. It's the Fifth Circuit doing Fifth Circuit things.

they want flint to be repeated in every state.