The Destroyer

Dennis Green  has been educating the masses (unwashed droolers that they are) at Balloon Juice as to the similarities between the current forces of reaction in This Great Nation of Ours® (We kid, because we hate this scab of a nation!) & the late & somewhat unlamented Confederate States of America.

All good, and this excerpt from today is clarifying:

In another lecture Blight discussed the very different ways that the Confederates and Unionists viewed the US Constitution:

Now, another argument here, and again Phil Paludan has made this better than anyone I think, is he’s argued that southerners and northerners have sort of come to view the U.S. Constitution, this document we live under, in different ways; that northerners had come to see the Constitution as a kind of protector, much violated now by Kansas-Nebraska Act, Dred Scott decision, et cetera, whereas southerners had come to see that constitution more as a destroyer, as something to fear, that might, if the wrong people get hold of it, begin to attack or erode their society…

Like democracy, the Constitution is a good thing, as long as the plebes & proles don't get a hold of it & pervert it into a suicide pact for businessmen.