Hillary she said she has a plan not only for America , but the world as well, although as it is looking she probably will not be the Democrat’s candidate.  Barack is not that much different from that same ideology of more government control over people’s lives.  History has shown us that the worst thing that can happen is to give power to a person who has the hubris to think their way is the right path to utopia.  In the 19th century Marx gave the reason and Stalin, Mussolini, and Hitler implemented it.  Hillary and Barack’s philosophy is that of Marx, although it is disguised in lofty language of “hope” and “change” as well as seemingly desirable goals that makes it immune from comparison to those 20th Century murders.  But the similarity is very evident—if one chooses to look    

We had a Constitution that protected us from what happened in Europe during the first half of the 20th Century.  The Supreme Court, however, with the assistance of socialist minded politicians, has over the intervening years decided those controls, such as “Congress shall make no law….” were antiquated.  The Constitution “was written for a different age” and a “simpler time” people argued.  Thus the Court strained our credulity and created “doctrines” not provided for in the Constitution, such as “strict construction” and “compelling State interest” each designed to get around a constitutional impediment.    

Some current legal theorist argues that the Constitution is a “living document.”  This legal philosophy turns even the most unambiguous language of the Constitution into nothing more than meaningless words, words without depth, definition, or understanding.  The Court’s role has morphed from the arbitrator of justice and protector of the Constitution to, in effect, another political arm of the government whose purpose is to define the Constitution’s relevancy to the time a circumstances, which includes the “political temperament.”  With this expanded judicial philosophy the Court, with the people’s blessing, has “expanded” their “interpretation” of what the Constitution provides, and with each “interpretation” the government’s power increases, and the peoples power diminishes.

Consequently, the government’s role has expanded into areas not provided for within the Constitution.  This expansion has allowed the politicians literally to sell their services to the highest bidders.  In so doing they can pit one class of citizen against the other, promising rights, benefits and privileges to targeted groups at the expense of others with virtual impunity.  All of this done under the banner of “fairness,” often disguised as “constituent services”—but better known in the Third World as bribery.  The people, however, Republican and Democrat, have grown to expect privileged treatment from our elected representatives.  The people now expect their particular circumstance to be advantaged, rewarded with some legislative perk, or pork, that is addressed exclusively to our benefit.  Unseen and unrealized, however, the benefit comes with a price that another “person” or “citizen” must pay.  It has, however, a greater price that goes unseen—the destruction of our constitutional soul.  

The “people” have reached a point where legal gimmickry by the Supreme Court, as in the Kelo case that took private property for other than public use, rarely raises an eyebrow.  The citizenry has become complacent as their freedoms gradually disappear.  Even those who have sworn an oath to defend the Constitution do not feel encumbered or inconvenienced by its language.  This is due in part to the fact the Supreme Court has eliminated any clarity of constitutional language, and so “Congress shall make no law…” did not stop the Congress and the President Bush from putting into law the McCain-Feingold bill that restricted the freedom of speech.

Except for slavery, the Constitution was born without eyes.  As one reads the Constitution, the Founder’s plan of a blind government becomes evident.  It was a government that was not supposed to know who was rich or poor, who was Irish, Italian, German, or any of the hundred of nationalities that became the “melting pot” known as America .   To that end, the country fought a war and hundreds of thousands of people died to remove the one exception to a blind government—slavery.

However, something happened.  People began to think they, as an individual, knew more than the Founders, who in the collective wisdom understood the nature of man.  The Founders understood how “factions” are created and what gave them life.  They carefully, not perfectly, constructed the Constitution with the nature of man and his propensity for “mischievousness” their foremost consideration.  They knew the tendency of power to corrupt and so they limited the Federal government’s powers in the Constitution and diffused the remaining powers among the “Several States.”  What they did not plan for was the ingenuity of the Supreme Court and their ability to turn “the weakest branch” into a force de jure.

The positions of the candidates are different in some minor ways, however, they all are alike in one conclusion; they know what is best for us—the know better than the “people” to whom our Founder’s placed such trust.  They know better than the people that preceded them and built this country up to become the greatest country the world has ever seen.  A country that has never asked more than, as Colin Powel said, “…enough land to bury our dead.”  In spite of all the good we have done we are demonized, even buy our own people.  We are at a point where citizenship is no longer valued, but demeaned by many who have not only been privileged to be born here, but have achieve the proverbial “American dream.”  We have reached a point where a potential first lady can say she is finally “really proud of my country” and people defend her.  At one time, such a statement would have been met with outrage from all quarters and terminate any presidential aspirations of her husband.  But no longer is trashing America unacceptable, in fact, it is unfortunately, accepted.  In fact, even former president can go around the world slamming the country to foreign audiences and nary an eyebrow is raised.

©Bill Ryan

Midlothian, VA