Protect the Constitution

By

       George Sontag

"Republics decline into democracies and democracies

degenerate into despotisms." -- Aristotle

       As children, the young Patrick Henry, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin and the Marquis de Lafayette did something our children don’t do today,they did study the past. They studied how ancient civilizations governed, what the world’s most brilliant philosophers thought and why man acts as he does across time.

      In the 21^st century United States The education system also known as “government schools” have opted to put the study of human history on the back burner. It seems subjects like black history and social justice is more important than the reading the teachings of great scholars and thinkers whose truisms are the basis for all humanity. This Progressive agenda, that preaches that the past is obsolete, professes that all writings, including the Constitution and subjects such as civics, are unimportant. 

 

      In this way the Progressive left are transforming America by transforming the rules. They use the term “post-constitutional" to describe the current era in which we live. What is post-constitutional? There are couple of characteristics. In the past, law was the great leveler. We could all agree on the basics. Law is no longer a fixed, largely agreed upon principle. Instead it is becoming something elastic, subjective, defined by the latest best argument cooked up at Harvard Law School or Yale.

      Outright hostility to the Constitution becoming mainstream. In our law schools law professors are busy dismantling the Constitution because of their dislike of it and the people who wrote it, than they are teaching what it actually says. After all, why teach what it actually says when your Progressive agenda is to replace it?

      Close-minded liberals have the intellectual arrogance to think they should decide for all of us which ideas are to be heard and which are not. They try to portray everything that happened in America’s past as evil and backward. This reeks of totalitarianism, which has crept in gradually and has taken root in our society. In our media, in all that we see and hear, the propaganda of Progressive Socialism is overwhelming. Their drum pounds 24/7 so it should be no shock that millennials lean to the Left when they constantly have liberalism shoved down their throats by their schools, their favorite musicians, and Hollywood.

      H. L. Mencken famously said, “Nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American people.” While it was true at the time, it’s even more accurate now. Is it any wonder that this country is sliding down the slope towards Socialism?  The Constitution cannot protect our rights if we do not protect the Constitution. Freedom is not free, and the Constitution is just some words on paper if we do not do anything to those who attempt to subvert it.