Constitution-phobia – The Disease of the Left
Mark Levin keeps reminding us that socialism is a mental disorder. It is now more evident than ever before. The fear of the constitution and of our founding principles is everywhere.
While the left is constantly verbalizing a long string of political phobias, they may not recognize their own fears as a form of insanity. In recent months, ‘phobia’ is attached to anything that can be transformed into an irrational fear that serves the agenda of the left. It transforms people into bigots and brings on fits of rage and bigotry to any social leftist group that it fears.
But what if fear of playing on railroad tracks is not irrational but a reasoned and sane caution? What if one’s fears have a reasoned and principled rationale? What if the Radical Islamic Terrorists are really out to kill us?
I suppose that if what is labeled Islamophobia is irrational then our alternative course of treatment for this disease is to revise history to write ‘9-11’ out of existence. You see, the charges of phobic irrationality are themselves irrational and constitute a phobia greater than what is alleged.
Take for example the case of U.S. Senator (D-CA) Kamala Harris explained why she won’t support Neil Gorsuch for the Supreme Court. Her reasoning leaves her sanity seriously in doubt.
“Judge Gorsuch has consistently valued legalisms over real lives. I won’t support his nomination.”
Somewhere, shouting from the grave is the voice of John Locke –
“Freedom is constrained by laws in both the state of nature and political society. Freedom of nature is to be under no other restraint but the law of nature. Freedom of people under government is to be under no restraint apart from standing rules to live by that are common to everyone in the society and made by the lawmaking power established in it. Persons have a right or liberty to follow their own will in all things that the law has not prohibited and not be subject to the inconstant, uncertain, unknown, and arbitrary wills of others.”
Aristotle advocated the rule of law:
“It is more proper that law should govern than any one of the citizens: upon the same principle, if it is advantageous to place the supreme power in some particular persons, they should be appointed to be only guardians, and the servants of the laws.”
The United States was founded on the notion that no one is above the law and that we are a nation of law, not of men. For example, Thomas Paine wrote in his pamphlet Common Sense that “in America, the law is king. For as in absolute governments the King is law, so in free countries the law ought to be king; and there ought to be no other.”
In 1780, John Adams enshrined this principle in the Massachusetts Constitution by seeking to establish “a government of laws and not of men.”
But time has passed and we now have a new and brighter offering of political elites like the California Girls – Kamala Harris. Nancy Pelosi, Dianne Feinstein, Maxine Waters and Barbara Boxer. These give new meaning to the need for the rule of law rather than the arbitrary power of men (or women if you need to be gender specific). (Sarcasm intended)
Why do leaders fear Gorsuch? Possibly it is not a phobia at all, for the fear has a reasonable and rational basis. He will not allow them to do as they please and to become the tyranny of the elite. He will in fact do as feared: Rule by law, not by temporary passions, irrational emotions and wayward power grabs.
Yes, we do have a problem looming in our land, and it is foreshadowed by the fear of the law and of our constitution. Levin is right – liberalism is a mental disorder, bent on the destruction of our foundations and our liberties. The rule of individuals in contradistinction to our constitutional provisions is our greatest enemy.
