antagon
The Man
- Dec 6, 2009
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It is all constitutional no matter how much we disagree with it and think that the implementation of that power makes our life more difficult.
Is that better?
As far as it goes.
I'd say the more power the government has, the more it will make EVERYONE'S life difficult, particularly if that power is in areas that the government really isn't suited for. In many cases, people try to make the federal government micromanage the details of people's lives, and it becomes akin to playing the piano while wearing boxing gloves, or swatting flies with a sledgehammer.
It's always amazed me that the same people who advocate conducting military operations with "just enough force" never want to apply that theory to anything else they want the government to do.
I agree with you but the point I was trying to make is that the constitution just constitutes the powers of the government and as long as it stays within those confines, no matter what it does for good or for evil, it will always be constitutional to do those things.
I think sometimes people on the left believe that the constitution is some kind of ethereal document that they protects their causes such as allowing abortion yet it may not protect anyone's notion of what their rights are simply because its possible to create a constitution that violates what you think are your rights.
now is that just a left-wing tactic? summoning the constitution is real popular with the fringes of both ends if the political spectrum. youve got the left wing painted spot on, but the right fringe claims the constitution is their key to reducing or eliminating taxes and entitlements.
your broader point presents a starkly obvious reality: we have to act within our government to shape its policy, and increasing rely on our own lives to affect freedom and prosperity through opportunity, rather than through the most basic rights.