[justshutupandtakeit]

The fourteenth amendment was necessary in order to secure the newly freed slaves' rights as Americans. DemocRATS refused to accept their freedom and imposed all manner of means to re-enslave them in every sense.

Don't like the 14th? Blame the RATS for forcing the federal government to protect the ex-slaves from REAL tyranny, disenfranchisement, persecution and murder. Without that amendment even more thousands would have been lynched, burned and slaughtered than were by the murderous and hate-filled RATS. THAT was tyranny not what you claim.

[Imal]

The intent of the 14th was good. The wording, however, allowed the federal government to leak into pretty much anything they want to (even more than the "elastic commerce clause", a much easier problem to solve).

Witness the application of the 1st Amendment to entities other than Congress, with catastrophic results. Courtesy of the 14th Amendment as interpreted by the USSC. That was not the intent of the 14th, but now it is the foundation for all sorts of mischief. And much more to come.