Dangerous Words

Why progressives really hate the Constitution:

What makes the Constitution so dangerous in the eyes of Progressives is not that it empowers regional or racial minorities--although Wilson was a vicious racist and eugenicist who hated those he saw as inferior. What he despised was any limits on the power of government to achieve what by his lights were good things. This idea is at the heart of the Left's hatred of the American Constitution: it limits the power of government and sets competing power centers both within and outside the government against each other. It does so in order to constrain the ability of any one power center to dominate society and ensure individuals' ability to pursue their own vision of happiness. It is the empowerment of individuals that so offends the Progressives. Whenever there is a choice between individuals choosing their own destiny and the government controlling it, they choose the latter with one exception: the pursuit of pleasure. .... At its base, the Constitution is intended to be a bulwark against centralized power and enshrines the individual and family as the seat of power. Government is supposed to be a servant, not a master. Limiting government power is anathema to the elite, and the US Constitution is the biggest obstacle to the transnational elite. Therefore, it must go. Whether you call it the "living Constitution" or simply outdated and a "threat to democracy," the goal is the same: wipe away all limits to the power of the technocratic transnational elites.

They want power for them, not the people...