True.
The oft repeated statement by the left that the Constitution is a 'living and breathing document' is subversive. The Constitution is our bedrock. It's what stands between us and tyranny. It was made malleable, but only to a very confined extent - and with very high bars.
Government power always attracts fools, narcissists, and wannabe royalty. Our founders understood this.
Oh yes. It makes my hair stand on end when I hear “living and breathing document”.
There are certain words, symbols, and behaviors that allow me to make a snap, very accurate judgement on a person. They can always disprove it in some way which I accept, but in almost all cases, the conclusions drawn from the following things are reliable:
The raised fist. If it is clutching a rose, even more so.
The Rainbow Flag.
A Black Lives Matter sign on the lawn.
A Che Guevara poster or t-shirt.
Use of the phrase “A Teachable Moment”
Referring to the Constitution as “a living, breathing document...”
Granted, these aren’t totally bulletproof. As an example, my nephew once showed up to go out to dinner while our families were vacationing, and he was wearing a Che Guevara t-shirt. Now, he was a generally affable kid, so I asked him what he knew about the face adorning his attire.
His mumbled answer was “Some kind of revolutionary guy....”
I said “Do you know what his job as a “revolutionary” was”, and when he said no, I said “It was his job to take his gang of fellow revolutionaries to the houses of people who disagreed with their revolutionary leader, to drag them in their pajamas out of their houses in the middle of the night, and murder them in cold blood in front of their families, if those families were lucky enough not to be murdered as well.”
He mumbled, trailing off...”I just thought it was a cool shirt...”
Like any snap judgement, these things can only be used as data points, not a final statements, but often quite accurate in the end.