Most of our citizens know nothing about the Constitution...much like our President...to them it is 100% irrelevant. President Clinton knew if the citizens want a gun ban they are going to get it, regardless of the constitutionality. President Bush knew if the citizens want subsidized prescription drugs they are going to get it, regardless of the constitutionality. If the citizens want free healthcare they are going to get it. If they want a huge public works boondoggle that scapegoats Mexicans...then they deserve to get it good and hard.
So can we all stop pretending the Constitution is more than toilet paper or political leverage to the party in charge? It embarrassing after 8 years of Obama and whatever time we have left with Obama's orange but just as incompetent mirror President Trump.
The more things change the more they stay the same.
Trump's swamp draining looks a lot like Nancy Pelosi's swamp draining because Americans are mostly immoral greedy lying trash who want only to punish the other side.
I've long advocated taking the appointment of the attorney general out of the hands of the president because they're unconstitutionally being treated as the president's personal defense attorney/prosecutor. Maybe the state legislatures should pick the US AG or something. (The same goes for the US Supreme and federal court judges)
The stupidity of "conservatives" was on display the other day when Neal Boortz posted a twitter poll asking which was most damaging, the 16th or 17th amendment. More than 80% said that the income tax had done more damage than popularly elected senators.
Those 80% are a bunch of morons. Its true the income tax is unconstitutional and bad but the income tax has no conscience or animosity. It can't be bribed or bought. The popular election of senators is an unconstitutional and anti federalist act that stripped the states of their constitutionally guaranteed right to representation. Its why a state like mine is a GOP supermajority state with a majority GOP contingent of representatives in DC but still have Stabenow and Peters as senators. They represent Detroit, Flint, Ann Arbor, and Kalamazoo and say screw the rest of us. Prior to the 17th amendment, senators who failed to represent their states were easily recalled by the legislatures who sent them to DC.
We need to drop left AND right progressivism and return to the federalism of our founders.