Remember this?

Of course, that was just an old dead white guy – evil for all political factions: a religious fanatic, an extremist, a secessionist and rebel, and (for some libertarians, the telling blow) governor of Virginia twice! And worse, he was a slaveowner: dying with title to 67 of them! And (whisper!) he was a lawyer! Yet there are claims that he was himself a black man (quadroon or octaroon, supposedly). And he abolished importing of slaves into Virginia and sought to outlaw slavery.

And of course, we know that the Constitution is itself a product of, and cause of, systemic racism and all kinds of other evils. And it is not democratic.

And although revered (at least by some) and supposedly enforced by a captive and bootlicking judiciary, it is pretty much a paper tiger and followed ritualistically. But like the Law of Moses before the Babylonian Captivity and too often after that, its rituals and rites are preached and conducted, but there is no heart in it. Politicians claim to, and adhere to, the letter of the document, while ignoring the spirit of it. They claim it is a “living document” but in reality to them it is a dead letter.

The US Constitution is not perfect and never will be: it was written by humans. It has many, many flaws. It gives way too much power to government: especially the FedGov. The same can be said for every State constitution. Even by minarchist standards, let alone the standards of free-market anarchists.

But compared to what most of humanity for most of history has had to suffer under, it stands well above any other attempt to control government and the state. It is too bad that we here in the Fifty States have, or have allowed it, to be gutted.

But we are not without hope: we can restore extremely limited government. We can restrain and retrain government. We can force the bloated monster that is DC and its tentacles across the States and the world to shrink back – and maybe even come much closer to a tolerable situation than they did in 1787. But it takes courage, reason, and yes, faith. Do we have it?