Do Average Americans Even Care About the Intent of Our Founding Document?By Mike Miller
Jun 27, 2022
The Constitution of the United States of America was written in 1787, ratified in 1788, and has been in effect since 1789, making it the world’s longest surviving written governmental charter.
Now, 235 years later, one wonders if “everyday” Americans even care about what the Constitution says and stands for, or are they more blindly and selfishly concerned about what they personally believe and want?
At best, I have my doubts. At worst? Hell no, they don’t. One need look no further than the two continuing white-hot issues gripping America as we speak for ample proof: the Supreme Court’s overturn of Roe v. Wade and the Court’s Bruen decision, which struck down New York’s restrictive concealed-carry law.
In both cases, ignorance of (and disdain for) the law, relevant facts, and the intent of the Constitution have given way to meritless protests — many of them vile, violent, or both — aggressively protesting outside the homes of Associate Justices who voted in the majority on Roe, and imprudent calls by liberal elites for the dissolution of the Constitution altogether. In short, chaos reigns in place of rational thought, common decency, morality, and respect for a founding document that was written and adopted in part to protect us from the kind of craziness we now see on a daily basis. Ominously, it’s going to get worse.
Sophistry, derived from the ancient Greek sophistēs, is the practice of employing what appears to be sound reasoning in the defense of a conclusion that is inherently false or subjective by nature.
Today, sophistry connotes the eager willingness to utilize any argument to prove a point, mixing opinions with facts — often claiming the former to be the latter, — exposing one’s deep, often bitter, beliefs and convictions, as if you [third-person] and they [convictions] are the final arbiters of right and wrong. Sophistry, including constitutional sophistry, and political sophistry, is practiced by liberal elitists across America, from the halls of Congress to the no-longer-hallowed halls of academia, to corporate board rooms, “news” outlets, and, of course, the cesspool we call “social media.”
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Source:
https://redstate.com/mike_miller/2022/06/27/do-average-americans-even-care-about-the-intent-of-our-founding-document-n584997
