rlmorel,
You seem to be a thoughtful person,
However I would you have figured by now
Democrats are idiots and ignore laws
that violate their very sensitive
emotional beliefs.
I admit, I had to laugh gently as I read that, because it is what we all know to be true...that is, it is a given.
That said-I still believe in this country and the way it was set up by the Founders. I have always felt we are where we are because of the "frog-in-hot-water" theory.
There are entities who wish to transform our Constitutional Republic into something that is called a Constitutional Republic but is nothing of the sort, and they have been around for over a century now: Socialists, Communists, and Leftists in general.
It boils down to class warfare for them: This country made its bones on the fact that we have largely been a classless society. It doesn't mean we don't have classes, because we do. It is because of that whole "All men are created equal" thing, which when reduced to its elements, means all of us who are citizens of this Constitutional Republic are equal in the eyes of the law.
And that has been seen as an impediment to the Left, so they have tried to erode that, to make some people more equal than others because they cannot foment a revolution without removing that. We were never perfect at being a Constitutional Republic, but we tried, and tried to keep improving.
It is why I am hopeful in the renaissance of Conservatism. We want to "Conserve" the principles of our Constitutional Republic. On the "other" side, like death and taxes, they will never disappear, because even though the principles of Leftism (Socialism and Communism) are wholly incompatible with a Constitutional Republic constituted the way ours is (as perfectly described in F.A. Hayek's "Road to Serfdom") there is a saying by P.T. Barnum that describes why this battle will never be won, and will always have to be fought:
"There is a sucker born every minute."
And that means the battle will never be won. The Left understands P.T. Barnum's axiom all too well, so they will always have new recruits for their cause, new cannon fodder, new "Useful Idiots", and we must always man the ramparts to defend against them and defend our Constitution and our Republic.