I did. One assumption the author points out as no longer still true is that conservatives want to conserve this government. IMHO many of us are beginning to realize that is a “shot in the back dry gulch” option. Why are we working to preserve a system that is rigged against us?
“Why are we working to preserve a system that is rigged against us?”
Why indeed?
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The author’s thesis is exactly the opposite of your conclusion. The author points to the big part of the nation and electorate that is completely fed up with the ancien regime and wants to destroy it. He posits that there is a floor of 40% of the electorate in that camp and it could go a lot higher than that after the failed impeachment attempt.
Some folks might argue, and I’ll concede the point is worth considering, that we shouldn’t throw out the baby with the bathwater.
I see the US Constitution as a masterpiece in federated government and ensuring change is deliberate and considered.
So, to that end, I do not wish to see it replaced. I cannot image a better document, just a worse one.
Having said that, it has, over the existence of the country been serious perverted.
I’d rather see us go back—hard—to the original.
The first assault happened in Marbury. The idea that ONLY the Supreme Court can rule on Constitutionality gives them way more power than intended.
Then Lincoln’s actions in the disastrous Civil War forever changed the concept that we are a nation of separate states. We need to go back to that.
Then there’s the amendments to make Senate elections statewide popular votes, and the income tax are abhorrent. HOWEVER, both of these were passed constitutionally as amendments, so they do follow the Constitution.
The Supreme court Wickard v. Filburn decision, which said everything is considered as interstate commerce and can be regulated by Congress because “interstate commerce” is in the preamble is a BAD ruling.
None of these bad changes/decisions are worth conserving at all and are progressive and tyrannical in essence. Conservatives would be right to oppose them all.
Fixed it.