The World War 2 Generation came back from their how-to-be a good doggy training with the conviction that they were AMERICANS ONLY. There was no white, there was no black, there were no Southerners and no Northerners. As to self-interest, there was only Sacrifice.
That is precisely the kind of Wordist attitude that the Constitution could not operate in. The Constitution uses a system of checks and balances where personal preferences are allowed because the different branches of government will keep each other in check. The final appeal was to the people.
But when the WWII Generation took power, there was no “people.” They were all Americans. The people did not have any existence except as Good AMERICANS. So they had to appeal to a Federal Branch to tell them what Good Americans were.
Whereas the Tenth Amendment made it specific that the final appeal would be to the people or the states, Good Americans do not see any separate entities of this kind.
So the World War II Generation’s Final Appeal is to the Federal Courts.
#1 by shari on 08/31/2009 - 4:27 pm
This is an old story too. Instead of being free, and ordinary, they thought they were some part of a very big thing. Actually, I think we are part of something big, but not what proud, seductive, men would lead us to believe. The “dream” they follow is showing more and more as a vain thing.
#2 by Dave on 08/31/2009 - 6:32 pm
Yes, and that Wordist world is one where nobody is allowed to be authentic.
And then the irony rolls in like a rising ocean, millions of nonwhites all speaking the tongues of white men, wearing the dress of white men, deferring to the institutions descended from white men, all insisting to be emphatically what they are not.
Ruin of this kind sows salvation. A WW II generation person would be incapable of seeing it.
It all comes down to who actually gets to be authentic. The nonwhite majority hasn’t a clue.