The Hypocrisy of the Progressives

"Just follow the damned Constitution"

There's this congressman from California who's got all the techno-hipsters swooning because he is fighting a government effort to require back-doors in personal electronic devices that would allow law enforcement agencies to access encrypted private data.  He really gave the hipsters some serious wood with his impassioned remarks about privacy;

 "just follow the damned Constitution."  

That's great.  Good for him.  I'm glad anytime somebody fights for our 4th Amendment rights.  He went on to say 

"And that's why our founders put in the Constitution of the United States—that's why they put in the Fourth Amendment. Because they understand that an Orwellian overreaching federal government is one of the most dangerous things that this world can have."   

There's just one little problem with Representative Lieu's heartfelt defense of the Constitution.  Like all progressives, he's only worried about defending those parts of the Constitution that will advance his leftist ideology.  He doesn't give a rat's ass about the 2nd Amendment.  His record of promoting extreme gun control measures shows that.  And, being that he is a progressive, he tends to ignore the fact that the Constitution is all about LIMITATIONS on the power of government.  Like all progressives, he wants to expand the size of the government and give it powers never dreamed of by the men who wrote the Constitution.  The federal government dictating to private citizens that they must purchase health care insurance......he's all for that.  Limit free speech by overturning Citizen's United....sure.  The government ordering religious institutions to engage in actions that are in direct contravention to their beliefs....yep, Ted wants that too.  I guess he never read the 1st or 10th Amendments either.  He supported Obama's executive amnesty, which overrode the powers granted to Congress by Article I, Section 8.  I guess he just skipped past that part too.  

Progressives love to say that the Constitution is a 'living, breathing' document, that can be altered as needed to adapt to the current situation progressive political agenda.  They don't even need the consent of the governed to change the Constitution to suit their purposes; they just get some activist judges to create new law on the fly.  That's not the intent of the Constitution.   It is supposed to be the bedrock foundation upon which our laws rest.  The founding fathers deliberately made it difficult to alter the Constitution.  They specifically did that to protect us from the tyranny of the majority and an all-powerful state.  But that is exactly what is at the heart of the progressive movement; an all-powerful federal government run by an unelected bureaucracy. 

I've got a little bit of advice for you, Ted.  Just follow the damned Constitution!