That Government Program Violates The Constitution, But You Don't Care

You could read the Constitution of the United States of America in less than an hour. Yet, if you ask, most Americans have never read the document. Ergo, American politicians can get away with anything. Quite frankly, it is manifestly obvious that the average American citizen doesn't care.

Americans so despise the Constitution that anyone who appeals to Constitutional prohibitions against government involvement in issues like health care, social security, education funding, or a host of other government programs is categorically labeled an extremist. It is true, compared to the consensus of 21^st century America, that one who insists on a strict adherence to the Constitution is an extremist. That bears witness to how far average Americans have strayed from the Constitution, not how far to the right strict constructionists are.

The battle for the minds of Americans may be lost. The moniker “right-wing radical extremist” may well continue to be an effective tactic to denigrate the strict constructionist. An effective campaign denigrating an idea may work in a society dedicated to the religious tenets of pragmatism, the philosophy of the Secular Humanist, but it does not prove the rightness of the opposite. Neither does the extreme nature of an idea prove that it is wrong. Acceptance of an idea by a majority, even a vast majority, does not make that idea right. Neither does the codification of an idea into law by a ruling majority make an idea right.

Most Americans will fight against government involvement in programs in which they are not able to take advantage. The single male who has no children despises the property taxes that pay for your child's education. The man who has worked hard for a living all of his life rails against multi-generational welfare families. The Mid-Westerner is disgusted by government payouts to flood victims along the Mississippi. The non-intellectual can't understand grants for the study of Japanese Beetles, or some other scientific study. But, when the un-Constitutional program that reaches into their sphere of interest is cut off, you all of a sudden become an extremist.

If you are recoiling at the idea of ending your “entitlement” program, here is something for you to consider. If the Constitution does not govern this nation, then it is only the whims of wicked men that are governing it. It may take some time, but the whims of wicked men can only lead to one thing: tyranny. If there is no fixed standard of governance then there really is no standard at all.

The only thing standing between you and totalitarianism is the right-wing radical extremists, who insist on a strict constructionist view of the Constitution. If you are not fond of the idea of being a slave to your government maybe you will want to consider taking responsibility for your needs and desires, and joining the ranks of the right-wing radical extremists who are fighting for a fixed standard in governance; The fixed standard of the Constitution. Read it, then decide whether it is really all that radical to require individuals and families to take responsibility for their own care, and whether it is all that radical to require government to stay out of the affairs of individuals and families that are attempting to take care of themselves and their neighbors.