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Originally Posted by dksuddeth
when we strayed from originalist intent and the straight text of the constitution, we handed our lives over to the elitists. that's fact, plain and simple. Our country is damned now because of it.
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I'm not typically one to suggest someone move, but saying our country is damned seems to indicate a pretty strong opinion that it is beyond hope. I trust you're already planning on moving to some other free market utopia since you have no faith in your own country, right? As concerned as I may get at times, I've certainly never thought, let alone been tempted to type, that our country is
damned. Yet progressives are the ones accused of not being patriotic enough.
The SCOTUS is fallible, indeed, but I've never understood the way some people worship a 200+ year old document written at the very beginning of the industrial revolution, and expect that it applies perfectly to modern life. Then again, I don't understand a lot of documents that people worship, many of which are much older.
Whether or not the founders intended it in the way we read it now, the fact is the constitution
does give government the power to look over the general welfare of its citizens. As a strict constructionist who apparently thinks the founders were prescient, I'd think you'd recognize that they could have just as easily been more specific and written things like "government does not have the right to provide health care or health insurance." Except, they didn't.
It's not like this is a new idea anyway. Teddy Roosevelt argued for nationalized health insurance almost 100 years ago. Either our country has always been on course to being "damned" (in which case, I'd argue the founding fathers did a pretty crappy job if the country was set off track so early on (and even earlier by your standards, see: Marbury v. Madison), and therefore do not deserve the worship you give them and their document(s)), or the country is working more or less as it should.