The advocates of unlimited government are beginning to sense that their long-sought victory over the concept of limited government is finally within sight:
As the nation teeters at the edge of fiscal chaos, observers are
reaching the conclusion that the American system of government is
broken. But almost no one blames the culprit: our insistence on
obedience to the Constitution, with all its archaic, idiosyncratic and
downright evil provisions…it is hard to take seriously the claim by the
Constitution’s defenders that we would be reduced to a Hobbesian state
of nature if we asserted our freedom from this ancient text. Our
sometimes flagrant disregard of the Constitution has not produced chaos
or totalitarianism; on the contrary, it has helped us to grow and
prosper.This is not to say that we should disobey all constitutional commands.
Freedom of speech and religion, equal protection of the laws and
protections against governmental deprivation of life, liberty or
property are important, whether or not they are in the Constitution. We
should continue to follow those requirements out of respect, not
obligation.
Make no mistake, getting rid of the Constitution has always been the penultimate goal of the Left. Everything they have done, from expanding the franchise to women and younger voters to changing the demographic makeup of the electorate and buying off the elderly, has been with this object in mind. Unlimited government is the goal, and even though the Constitution is mostly honored in its breach these days, it is still a reminder that the real America, the historical America, is a nation of laws and not men.