The New York Times and a slew of influencers have discovered that the Constitution is the most dangerous and subversive document ever to have been written. 

In that, they have a point. 

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This is an argument that has gained a lot of steam in the 21st century, and it has been at the heart of the Progressive movement since at least President Wilson's election. 

Wilson, a political scientist, believed that in the modern world, the ideal form of government was a technocracy led by "experts" who understood how things "really" worked and who could guide society to greater prosperity and peace than anything that came before it. He wasn't exactly anti-democracy, at least according to his own lights, but he certainly wasn't a fan of people deciding things for themselves or freedom as we understand it.

What makes the Constitution so dangerous in the eyes of Progressives is not that it empowers regional or racial minorities--although Wilson was a vicious racist and eugenicist who hated those he saw as inferior. What he despised was any limits on the power of government to achieve what by his lights were good things. 

This idea is at the heart of the Left's hatred of the American Constitution: it limits the power of government and sets competing power centers both within and outside the government against each other. It does so in order to constrain the ability of any one power center to dominate society and ensure individuals' ability to pursue their own vision of happiness. 

It is the empowerment of individuals that so offends the Progressives. Whenever there is a choice between individuals choosing their own destiny and the government controlling it, they choose the latter with one exception: the pursuit of pleasure. 

That's why Progressives push sexual liberation and the increasing use of drugs: their strategy is the same as the one in Aldous Huxley's Brave New World, in which the entirety of society is controlled not through violence and intimidation but through anesthetizing the population by doling out pleasure. 

It may take violence and eliminating opposition in the beginning, but the goal is to replace ambition, individuality, and initiative with pleasure-seeking. The elite controls society while the population sleepwalks through life being led. 

At its base, the Constitution is intended to be a bulwark against centralized power and enshrines the individual and family as the seat of power. Government is supposed to be a servant, not a master. 

Limiting government power is anathema to the elite, and the US Constitution is the biggest obstacle to the transnational elite. Therefore, it must go. 

Whether you call it the "living Constitution" or simply outdated and a "threat to democracy," the goal is the same: wipe away all limits to the power of the technocratic transnational elites. The importation of millions of illegal aliens in the Western world has much the same goal: wipe away cultural traditions in order to replace them with the simple pursuit of pleasure. 

Expect more of these arguments because wiping away limits to government power is necessary to achieve their goals. Whether it is wiping away free speech, the right to protect yourself, your right to property, bodily autonomy, or any ofher freedom we consider to be inalienable, their goal is simple: replace your will with theirs.