By Mike D’Virgilio I make a daily visit to RealClearPolitics.com most mornings, and on Tuesday the following title stood out to me: “The Constitution and its worshippers.” I clicked on the link and saw that this was the subtitle. Above were the words, “The Commandments.” Methinks this woman is going to equate fealty to the Constitution to religion, and I was right. You know how those religious people can be, so rigid and dogmatic; nothing like those open minded and tolerant progressives (quit laughing). Last week the newly Republican controlled Congress read the Constitution from the House floor, and most on the Left thought this was laughable and a meaningless stunt. To those who call themselves progressives and liberals, the Constitution is great and all, but it’s a product of its backward times and thus cannot have value in the original meaning of its writers. How could something that allowed slavery, counted slaves as three-fifths of a person, and didn’t give women the right to vote have any credibility? As far as it goes it was fine to get us started, fine for a small agrarian society, but it simply can’t speak effectively to a modern capitalistic information based society.

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