Democrats: We Will Overcome the Constitution
24th June 2016
Nothing stirs the passions of Democrats these days quite like the prospect of gutting the Constitution. In an unprecedented act of pretend political bravery, House members held a catered sit-in, demanding that Republicans allow a vote to strip away protections of Second, Fifth and Sixth Amendments of the Constitution. It was quite the scene.
There were the selfie-happy Democrats singing “We Shall Overcome” while demanding passage of a bill that those right-wing nutjobs over at the American Civil Liberties Union have “strongly” argued would undermine civil liberties. As of this writing, no participant has been beaten down by the cops or thrown into a dank cell, although iPhones were probably getting perilously low on juice for those who’d forgotten their chargers.
On its surface this sounds ridiculous, and to any rational impartial observer it is — invoking classic tactics and tropes of the Civil Rights movement in support of measures attempting to infringe Constitutional rights. But Democrats can’t be fazed by the cart being in front of the horse; they don’t even see it. Modern Democrats are ‘progressives’, and ‘progressives’ MUST have change, because without change there is no progress; hence the Constitution, which stands in the way of change, must be eroded until it is gone, gone, gone.
Civil rights-era heroes like Rep. John Lewis, who lent his considerable legacy to this vacuous grandstanding, was once on the terror watch list himself. He didn’t know how he got on it. He didn’t know how to get off of it. Yet, today he believes this Kafkaesque system is a sound way to deny his fellow citizens their rights.
I am perfectly comfortable with Congressman Lewis being on a terrorist watch list, considering some of the idiotic initiatives to which he has lent his support since he started coasting to fame and fortune on his Civil Rights record. That doesn’t mean that he ought to lose his right to keep and bear arms.