“The damage to the Constitution is done.”
Yes, I see it as having no more real world observance than if it had never existed. If we had a government that suddenly began to follow it that government would be condemned as illegitimate. Only a very tiny percentage of Americans actually have some idea of what the wording of the constitution is and fewer still have any idea of the true meaning now that we have courts up to and including the supreme court making up new meanings to suit their purpose. Maybe one in one thousand Americans are aware that the constitution guarantees a Republican form of government or what that means.
I tend to agree with you. Once politicians became receptive to giving sovereignty away, I suspected the Constitution was no longer in effect. When I saw the Republican Congress give Obama everything he wanted, I was certain of it. This country is being dismantled from the inside out, Congress selling themselves to the highest bidder. Obama, like no other president in history, has shown that he can ignore the Constitution and nothing happens, just business as usual. Some genies are impossible to get back into the bottle. And history has shown that when Republics fall, they have a lot in common with Humpty Dumpty.