1. Well, you more or less point out that as written, the rights that the Constitution sought to define were not meant to be universal.
2. I know what the tenth amendment says, but more importantly, what it implies.
The residents of these individual states have incompatible values
and cannot abide the same laws.
What specifically makes them "united," then?
People in bright red America have, with total sincerity on their part, values that are absolutely repugnant to me.
They don't hesitate to be equally critical of my own urban northeastern values.
Wouldn't we be better off as neighbors, each doing our own thing,
rather than trying with no success at all
to see what universal national laws we can agree upon?
At some point,
when what we were taught
proves to not coincide with what we plainly see,
we have to accept that we were taught a lot of bullshit
and must now trust our own observations.
That seems to have come much more easily to me than to some others.
As you are by now aware, I call the problem "true believerism."
