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Should we treat the U.S. Constitution like a secular state religion? |
| (- 5) Centralized (authoritarian) view: The Civil War proved to us that we can no longer trust white people to handle their own affairs like adults on a local level. After all, one third of the white population (white Southerners) decided to go their own way in 1861. They inevitably required a bloody "correction" for their unacceptable attitudes towards States rights, slavery, the Federal Government, and other issues. This proved that henceforward we require a special staff of learned wise men in Washington, backed by a powerful, interventionist Federal bureaucracy and military, to hold perpetual "Sunday School" for their unruly Southern white "children" and other Americans. Our leaders must now enlighten us with correct new interpretations of the Constitution that redefine our relationship to big government, Israel, corporatism, global interventionism, special privileges for minorities, and other issues. With a firm hand, they must be prepared to correct us with domestic military intervention if we threaten to break our required religious devotion to their new interpretations of our holy document. A soft light emanating from the National Archives Building radiates forth and fills our leader's minds with wisdom and their hearts with empathy for their subjects. We can trust them to provide adequate checks, balances, and restraints on power solely within the context of their own government.
We can trust that Federal activism and interventionism can only mean Camelot rather than fascism. We can trust that globalism and multiracialism are an inevitable wave of the future, therefore we require our government high priests to help us adapt to this inevitability. We also understand that Southern whites were denied voting rights during the Reconstruction era because all men are literally equal before this new revealed state religion, and their legislatures had to be delivered into the hands of former black slaves to really make the point. |
. . . | (+5) Decentralized
(libertarian) view: Even
George Washington, an authoritarian-leaning Federalist, claimed that
the document was the result of "unawed" adoption
based upon full investigation and deliberation. Anti-Federalist
Patrick Henry opposed it before the Virginia legislature,
claiming
that it "squinted towards monarchy" compared to the Articles
of Confederation. Most Americans at the time preferred the Articles
of Confederation and believed the Federal government must be kept weaker
than the state governments to prevent it from growing like a cancer.
In the long run, it is much better to experience separatism than to
risk fascism. All the worst fears of Patrick Henry have since become
a reality. For example, Abraham Lincoln, who
told us that the Constitution should become the supreme religion of
the land, proceeded to run roughshod over the Tenth Amendment that
reserves rights to the states by brutally invading the South. In addition,
the U.S. Supreme Court has repeatedly usurped Congress by making ridiculous
interpretations of the Constitution's commerce and general welfare
clauses in order to create new law and micro-manage the legal affairs
of states with brazen Federal interventions. The Constitution
has become an authoritarian magic totem, where a President can swear
allegiance to it one moment, and then circumvent Congress by embroiling
America in costly foreign wars the next. Many Americans believe that
this country can absorb exotic peoples from all over the world, and
if we can only get them swear allegiance to this document, they will
make a contribution and become just as assimilable as WASPs who created
America in the early 1800's. This ignores the fact that an important
way to avoid authoritarian government is to insure that people have
strong ethnic, racial, and cultural commonalities on a grass roots
level in order to maintain common standards at a lower level without
relying on central government interventionism. |
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