Why Does the Left Want to Scrap the Constitution?

American Thinker ^ | 12 Nov, 2024 | John Horvat II

[MtnClimber]

For years, reforming the Constitution has been a misguided conservative issue. Downplaying the danger of a runaway convention, impatient conservatives have campaigned to ask the states to call a Constitutional Convention (Con-Con) to consider reforms and amendments that might address their many legitimate concerns.

Now, leftists are appearing on the reform horizon, calling for major constitutional changes.

One impatient leftist is Prof. Erwin Chemirinsky, dean of the Law School at the University of California, Berkeley. His new book, No Democracy Lasts Forever: How the Constitution Threatens the United States, goes beyond reform and calls for scrapping the Constitution altogether. He thinks the document has outlived its usefulness.

The leftist shift against the American Constitution is surprising. Liberals have long used (and abused) the Constitution to their benefit.

They proclaimed it a “living” document that conveniently changes with the times and liberal demands. By finding pockets of penumbra inside the document, liberal Supreme Court justices have legislated from the bench, striking down traditions and conservative initiatives. Democrats have long accepted the results of the Constitution’s Electoral College for decades without problems.

Over the years, people have complained about certain parts of the Constitution. Some have tried to amend it. However, few on the Left or Right have ever said it threatens the United States.

Chemerinsky does, and goes one woke step further. Changing the narrative drastically, he says the Constitution was flawed from the beginning -- the product of a group of white slaveowners. Its anti-democratic elements cannot be reformed while population and political shifts are making these flaws increasingly worse, contributing “greatly to the crisis of American democracy.”

[metmom]

Because the Constitution limits the Federal government’s power and is the rule of law.

[equaviator]

“People on the left hate people.”

Yet local Metro area news stations all love to talk about “Neighbors Helping Neighbors” like it’s some kind of bandwagon you don’t want to miss. Maybe it’s more like the left’s hating of people who think and do for themselves.

[Redleg Duke]

Yeah, Berkeley.

Figures.

[Redleg Duke]

Yeah, Berkeley.

Figures.

[blitz128]

O bummer made it clear, the constitution is a document of negative rights meant to control the govt and keep the people free from tyranny

These past 4 years and this election show exactly what the deep staters want, and if only they could get that pesky piece of paper out of the way all their dreams would come true

[bankwalker]

Collectivists must destroy individualists.

[nopardons]

BTTT

[Openurmind]

It is not the left alone and it is very bipartisan. It is the global One World Order who wants to destroy the Constitution and Nationalism. The left and the NEOCONS are just the convenient tools they use to do this.

The deep state has a very real parent Corporation...

1773 - Mayer Amschel Rothschild

Mayer Amschel Rothschild assembles twelve of his most influential friends, and convinces them that if they all pool their resources together, they can rule the world. This meeting takes place in Frankfurt, Germany. Rothschild also informs his friends that he has found the perfect candidate, an individual of incredible intellect and ingenuity, to lead the organization he has planned – Adam Weishaupt.

https://www.michaeljournal.org/articles/world-government/item/a-history-of-the-new-world-order-part-i

[SMARTY]

The Constitution is in their way

[TalBlack]

Power. Nothing more nothing less.

[TalBlack]

“…deducible from democratic principles long ago received as respectable. “

Oh, well, there ya’ go. Flawless argument there.

[eyeamok]

Over the years, people have complained about certain parts of the Constitution

WRONG! The People have been complaining on the changing of words and definitions by LAWYERS twisting things around and insisting the written words of the US Constitution don't mean what they really say. So before we do anything, we should heed Shakespeares Advice and KILL ALL THE LAWYERS.

[I got the rope]

Come on just say it. Whose agenda?

[whitney69]

Because it gets in their way.

wy69

[FlingWingFlyer]

Because they are lawless maggots. They don’t want people arrested for committing crimes. The don’t want law abiding Americans protected or able to defend themselves by owning firearms. Out of control chaos is more their style. Mayhem and murder. You know. Joseph Stalin kind of communist stuff.

[Eli Kopter]

The United States was formed as a breakaway Republic from Europe and the monarchies. Now, leftists are trying to reunite our citizens with them in a new globalist, communist oligarchy.

[I got the rope]

Chemerinsky does, and goes one woke step further. Changing the narrative drastically, he says the Constitution was flawed from the beginning -- the product of a group of white slaveowners. Its anti-democratic elements cannot be reformed while population and political shifts are making these flaws increasingly worse, contributing “greatly to the crisis of American democracy.”

This part is funny. We now know that most slave owners were jewish.

[nathanbedford]

The unsettling truth is that Professor Chemirinsky might well get his wish, but not from one of the two paths he outlines. Actually, a constitutionally authorized Convention of States is such a safe procedure from a conservative, constitutionally protective point of view that one can only wish that the left would fruitlessly squander its efforts to dispense with the Constitution in such a hopeless effort. Hopeless because it would require only 13% of the 99 chambers of our statehouses to reject such a radical amendment process.

The unsettling truth is that unless America reins in its insane fiscal profligacy we will actually succeed in driving our constitutional republic over the Cliff. I think Donald Trump knows that he has a finite amount of time, a grace period If you will, in which to convince the bond markets that he can actually curb the deficit by growing the GNP so that we do not to descend into a sovereign debt death spiral. If Trump fails, or if a black Swan intervenes, we won't have to worry about the old Constitution, it will be swept away in blood in the streets of America.

[KrisKrinkle]

“Thus, the book analyzes these so-called flaws, which have made the Constitution the oft-repeated “threat to our democracy.””

The Constitution is a threat to democracy because we don’t have a democracy...we have a republic if we can keep it.