Boot on Declaration of IndependenceBy Selwyn Duke

CNN may never be able to top its now infamous 2020 chyron, “Fiery But Mostly Peaceful Protests…” — but that doesn’t mean the network isn’t still trying. It’s latest effort is an eyebrows-and-ire-raising attack on America’s foundation reading, “SCHOLARS WARN OUTDATED CONSTITUTION HAS PUT DEMOCRACY AT RISK.”

Of course, perspective is needed. If the “scholars” — Harvard government professors Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt — mean “democracy” as in the people or our congressmen get whatever they want at the moment based on majority vote no matter how rash, they have a point. The Constitution certainly is an impediment to glorified mob rule. This is for a good reason, too, one that happens to be the precise reason cultural revolutionaries hate the document:

It is conservative by its very nature.

(This doesn’t mean what you may think, but more on that later.)

Read the rest here

Posted in

Let us know what you think, dear reader. We value your input!