Yesterday, September 17^th, was Constitution Day.  It was celebrated mostly by ignoring it.  As evidence, did you notice the surprise when a federal judge in Pennsylvania based a ruling on it?  The ruling called to mind such things as the right to associate together (peaceably), no arbitrary taking of livelihood and property, or the freedom to practice one’s religion.  Or even that unknown clause demanding the federal government guarantee a republican form of government to the states.  Even a judge found it hard to reconcile that with a governor being able to declare an emergency, granting himself dictatorial powers and then extending it as long as he likes, with no accountability. 

Many were appalled at the judge’s audacity to involve the constitution.  The vociferous opinions were almost unanimous – scientists are to rule!  Politicians should do as scientists say!  The overthrow of the centuries of understanding that the truths enshrined in the constitution were more valuable than life itself was drowned in the consensus that they weren’t worth risking getting sick.

I was taught at Penn that politics was the “master science.”  I also studied the beginning and advancement of the “Progressive” attempt to develop a scientifically-based “organizational society” – one variation called it the “therapeutic state.”  Well, the nanny state has arrived in all its squalor.

R. I. P. Constitution

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