Real Time With Bill Maher: Panel Talking About the U.S. Constitution

Source:The Daily Press

Unless you're a real Liberal, Conservative, Libertarian or perhaps even Independent, chances are you generally like the U.S. Constitution. If you're a so-called Progressive today Neoconservative or Christian-Theocrat, chances are you don't like the U.S. Constitution. Because it constricts you from doing what you want the Federal Government to do and make it bigger. 

Today's Progressives would like to see the Federal Government get so big to the point, that it would provide a lot of the services that the private sector and state and local governments currently provide. The 10th Amendment and Property Rights, makes that a lot more difficult for them to do that. As FDR found out during the New Deal back in the 1930s.  

So today's Progressives who are really European Social Democrats, they would like to rewrite the U.S. Constitution to give the Federal Government more power. Including taking out some Constitutional Amendments, like the 2nd Amendment the Right to Self-Defense. And perhaps even amend the First Amendment when it comes to the media. They would like to see a public media, not a "corporate Media" as they would call it. And even be able to regulate hate speech in America. 

As the Bush Administration found out, the U.S .Constitution got in their way when it came to indefinite detention of terrorist suspects. Neoconservatives would also like to amend the First Amendment so that it would only cover Freedom of Religion for Christians and political speech. Well that it is political speech, as long as the people are saying things they agree with. And would like to eliminate the Right of Privacy, the Fourth Amendment and perhaps a few others.

The Christian Right people I call Theocrats or better yet a religious cult, people who see marijuana as immoral, but have religious and political views that seem so out of space like they are on Fantasy Island and seem high on something illegal. Basically view people that don't live their lives as they do, they are immoral and should be in jail or something and would love to amend the First Amendment to outlaw adult entertainment. 

So the the Christian Right can censor certain forms of entertainment they don't like. Ban non-Christian religions and turn America into a Christian theocracy. Where life especially for women would become very restrictive with dress codes and that sort of thing. No more Right to Privacy, because now adultery and pre-marital sex, kids out of wedlock would be illegal. Pornography obviously illegal, alcohol and perhaps certain forms of dancing would be illegal. 

It would be like living in Iran but a Theocracy like this, would make Iran look like a liberal democracy. That only 1960s Hippies could dream up in one of their pipe dreams. So converted Progressives and ex-Libertarians like Bill Maher, should think twice about calling for a new U.S. Constitution, because he probably wouldn't like the results of it.  If Progressives want America to become like Scandinavia or Canada, then they need a new U.S. Constitution to achieve that. 

Today's Progressives would need a new Constitution to establish all the democratic socialism. And to give the Federal Government all of the power over us that they want to establish. If Neoconservatives want to make America like Russia, then they should move there or get into power and establish Martial Law, which is what happened in Egypt fifty years ago.

 If Theocrats want to make America like Iran, well they should move to Iran, because they aren't getting to the White House in America. No Presidential Candidate in America runs as a Theocrat and gets elected President. But for Liberals, Conservatives and Libertarians, we just need to defend, promote and speak up for the U.S. Constitution. To bring even more individual liberty than we already have.