CANCEL CULTURE AND THE CONSTITUTION

    As if we needed any further evidence that American Cultural Rot has reached the terminal stage, a Heartland Institute Poll was released this week indicating that a growing number of Ameroboobs believe that Cancel Culture should be extended to the U.S. Constitution. Granted, very little of the Constitution is still enforced anymore anyway; but the popular attitude towards it represents a very dangerous cultural shift.

   "53 percent of Democrats voice their support for eliminating the Supreme Court altogether, in favor of replacing it with a new, democratically elected court with justices chosen by the American people directly...In the same poll, a slightly larger majority of voters between the ages of 19 and 39 want to abolish the high court, at 54 percent." The author of the article seems to take comfort in the fact that "only" 1/5 of Republicans and 2/5 of Independents agree with the idea. Frankly, I don't take much solace in such statistics. 

   The especially troubling aspect of this poll is the cavalier attitude of the respondents to one of the most important foundational parts of the structure of our Republic. Political polls usually indicate that the people's dissatisfaction arises from the Government's failure to follow or enforce the Constitution: this is the first I've encountered where the public is actually stating that Constitutional provisions themselves ought to be jettisoned. 

    "67 percent of Democrats believe that the Supreme Court is a 'fundamentally sexist institution that favors men over women,' only 18 percent of Republicans share this sentiment, as do 36 percent of independents. Similarly, 56 percent of Democrats called the court a 'fundamentally racist institution,' with only 14 percent of Republicans and 29 percent of independents saying the same thing."

   The Supreme Court is not without its problems, but like most of our national issues, they are problems entirely of our own making. The problems that the Supreme Court has are precisely because of appointments being made through partisan cronyism (e.g. David Souter, John Roberts); or appointing incompetents because they represent 'diversity' (e.g. Ginsberg, Jackson, Sotomayor). The intention of the Founding Fathers was that men who were recognized as the top Constitutional experts and most experienced jurists would be selected for the job. The American People have not only allowed our Courts to become compromised by cheap politicians, they've encouraged it. And the numbers cited among younger Americans show that we've also failed considerably teaching the basic principles of self-government both at home and in schools.

   If you're over a certain age in America, you probably recall learning about the System of Checks and Balances sometime between the ages of 10 and 12; one again has to wonder where American parents in the postmodern era have been all this time. Actually, it's not much of a mystery.

     Which leads to a question I posed in the comments to the linked article:

   "Here's a question for all the True Believers out there: Say that we have a Red Wave this November and have all the investigations into Hunter's porn-surfing. How is that going to solve the problem of so many Americans willing to abolish the Supreme Court and replace it with diversity councils? How are they going to reverse the damage done by 'more than a half-century of liberals running America’s K-12 schools and colleges?'"

   The answer is, of course, that it can't and it won't---that's assuming even if by some chance we actually have anything like a normal election to begin with. There's nothing that the Great Reset Oligarchs would enjoy more than having the Third Branch of Government abolished because it's the only one that can veto their plans and carries the legal authority to do it. 

  And they're going get it abolished (or radically altered) too: those poll numbers show that we're not very far from at least a plurality demanding it. We've already been tolerating utterly illegal show trials---more recently they've become even more blatant: like the 'trial' of Derrick Chauvin, Ghisalline Maxwell, the Jan. 6 protesters, and soon Julian Assange.  As bad as it is now, we are really going to regret it when we have real Peoples' Tribunals based upon ideology over the Rule of Law.

    
   That goes too for those on the Right who thought that going-along-to-get-along was the best policy and that what went on in the Culture didn't effect them. We lose the Federal Judiciary and residing in "a safe Red State" isn't going to help very much; and when they do finally come, we'll have nobody to blame but ourselves.