Oh, the eternal crabbiness of the conservative, striving-to-be intellectual mind.
Time cover, Is God Dead? -- April 8, 1966
At one of those hangouts for conservatives with more education and degrees than brains and sense — for example, friends and sympathizers with Francis “I am not an ID advocate” Beckwith — forgetting the trouble Time got into with the cover story asking “Is God dead?” I nearly twisted my ankle on a rhetorical hole that opened with this:
But more importantly, America has a problem: the Constitution is dead. Now what?
Assuming that statement to be a fact rather than a radical, perhaps hallucinatory claim, comments proceeded to denigrate the New Deal as completely unconstitutional and therefore worthy of complete rollback, in that future when these people take over and replace the Constitution.
Can you imagine what they would say if they stumbled into a leftist, pro-communist site making the same claims?
So, I questioned their judgment that the New Deal was unconstitutional, bad, and unjustified. No nibbles on the invite to make a case they might be right, so I noted the thread earlier.
Those who think they are He-and-She-Who-Must-Be Obeyed* took great exception to my posts, said I had “one more chance.”
Skroom, you know?
Dear Readers: Is the Constitution dead? What evidence do you see?
Was the New Deal complete, unvarnished hoakum, or do you see value in any of the vestiges and legacy of the New Deal?
It could be an interesting discussion, if the Bathtub had any influence and a bunch of readers who would chime in.
Is the U.S. Constitution dead? Libertarians, Conservatives, and other ne'er-get-wells can't tell. So they use it as cover for raucous behavior, What's Wrong With the World, May 5, 2011.
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* Apologies to John Mortimer and Horace Rumpole.
Spread the word; friends don't allow friends to repeat history.
Posted by Ed Darrell 
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