The Dismal Fate of Growing Up Within an Empire — The New York Times Rants Against the Constitution

Understandably, there has been a vocal outcry condemning the recently published piece in the New York Times— “The Constitution Is Sacred.  Is It Also Dangerous?”  Many commentators have been quick to react to the article’s vitriol, directed against the founding document of the American Republic.  Yet, amidst the hullabaloo, one pertinent fact seems to have eluded the attention of those who found the thesis of the article—that the American Constitution is intrinsically un-democratic—indigestible.

The Constitution Is Sacred. Is It Also Dangerous?

One of the biggest threats to America’s politics might be the country’s founding document.

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That pertinent fact—the secret spoor, so to speak—is that the author of the article is a product of the educational system of the British Empire, an Empire murderously hostile to the Principles of the American Revolution since 1776. The author of whom we speak is a certain Jennifer Szalai, described in her biography as a 40-something “nonfiction book critic” for The New York Times.  For some unknown reason, Ms. Szalai refuses to make public her current marital status, sexual preference or national loyalty.

What is known about her is that she was born and educated in Canada, a “nation” which officially recognizes Charles III as its ruling sovereign and which  portrays his picture, as a sign of obeisance, on its $20.00 banknote.  The young Jennifer spent her entire youth living under the royally approved parliamentary system in Canada, a system of government which has now produced the tyranny of Justin Trudeau.  She apparently graduated from the University of Toronto, and then obtained a master's degree from the London School of Economics.  Writings by her have appeared in premier British imperial journals such as the London Review of Books and the Economist.  She also had a stint as a senior editor at Harper's Magazine, one of the last refuges of the dwindling anti-Trump Manhattan literati.

In reading Jennifer’s “The Constitution Is Sacred. Is It Also Dangerous?”, one is struck that the unbelievably historical illiteracy therein displayed does not bode well for the current competence of the Toronto school system, nor the once proud London School of Economics.  The amateurish inability to follow a simple train of thought is just mind-boggling.

The piece is best understood as one long johnny-one-note rant about “democracy,” with certain pauses for the obligatory genuflections to the holy trinity of race, women and the many flavors of “diversity.”  At no point in the article does Jennifer provide even a glimmer that she has any comprehension of what a Republic actually is.  At no point does she bother to ponder the gulf that separates the principles of the American Revolution from the malignancies of the British oligarchy.  Trite phraseologies pass for real historical insight.

In a word, the article is at best a high-school level travesty, and one might charitably hope it is not the last word on the mental state of the author.  Don’t get angry at poor mis-educated Jennifer.  Simply shake your head in pity at how a young mind, such as hers, was so easily filled with gibberish and anti-American prejudice.