So the Democrats really never did hear about all of silly pieces of paper written in the 1700s...
You don't understand, the Democrats think that history is nothing but a bunch of meta narratives or stories that were put together to present a one sided world view.
(from the American Standard on the Duke case, discussing the gang of 88 professors) Postmodern theorists pride themselves in discerning what they call "meta-narratives." They argue that such concepts as, say, Christianity or patriotism or the American legal system are no more than socially constructed tall tales that the postmodernists can then "deconstruct" to unmask the real purpose behind them, which is (say the postmodernists) to prop up societal structures of--yes, you guessed it--race, gender, class, and white male privilege.