I think Americans understand the left wants to throw out the Constitution. Even though they aren't written into the Constitution, we're more or less handling the various social issues by leaving important decisions up to the people. Let those who wish to include them specifically in the Constitution propose amendments and get them passed by popular initiative. I'm on the other side of this issue, and I believe to dismiss the U.S. Constitution all together as being "out of step" is narrow minded and out of step. What is most troubling to me is how the left has managed to get judges to legislate from the bench.
But second, and far more fundamentally, our Constitution is out of step in its failure to protect "entitlements" to governmentally "guaranteed" goods and services like education, housing, health care, and "periodic holidays with pay" (Article 24 of the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights). And right there, of course, is the great divide, and the heart of the matter. |
