Well, sure. No question about that. But you know as well as I do that the Progressive Left -- which is important in American culture today, if only as the source of the Kultursmog -- detests the First Amendment and the rest of the Bill of Rights; and (regardless of their pieties to the contrary) ever seeks to undermine it.
The Bill of Rights fortifies the just claims of human beings against the claims of government. But for the political Left, the state is everything, and the human person essentially nothing but a cog in the wheel of State. The individual is but a feeble, paltry, passing thing, fit only to be "ruled" by his betters, who are more intelligent and better educated than he is. The rule by experts is what the Left recommends.
But I have to say, if these epigones of Left Progressivism are any indication of the quality of expert opinion, then it would be far, far better for the rest of us to trust in our own common-sensical judgment. For those folks will not rest content until they have utterly destroyed American philosophy, culture, and way of life.
Well, I guess it gives them something to do. I gather they cannot find a better outlet for their passions, so inimicable to the thriving of human life and by extension, to any just, good order of society.
Such folks, wittingly or not, are engaged in the death business.
Thanks so much for writing, Editor-Surveyor!