Leaning to the Middle

Are Millienials leaning towards Constitutional originalism? This article argues that they may be doing so. It's quite well-written and a good read in general:

The way our republic is supposed to work is that our would-be Ruling Class can neither seize power nor wealth, nor keep it, except by the active, ongoing consent of the people. So the congressman who goes native loses, the CEO who approves New Coke gets fired, and so on. The secret sauce of American exceptionalism is that in every sector of life, success depended on service, mostly service to each other. But today the elites have figured out how to mercantilize the economy, and deployed the Administrative State as a paternalistic substitute for civil society. Look at any law, and you’ll find that the Ruling Class consistently benefits, directly or indirectly, by severing the links between the elites’ success and public approval.

What Republicans have forgotten, or never really knew, is that the free market and constitutional republicanism and federalism (localism) were all specifically designed to empower the little people over the big. They can’t get it through their heads that, yes, the point of the Constitution and of America was to reject the remnants of mercantile feudalism and all its side effects. The point of America is not that a single mom in Nevada and a mechanic in Ohio are just as important as Harry Reid and John Boehner, but in the ways that matter most, they are more important. It is by their consent that they are governed, not the other way around.

This is of course blindingly obvious to people of our generation and older, because we were taught as much in school. But civics, history and government have been reduced to mere nubs of their former selves in the public education system. Whether it was intentionally conspiratorial or simply more Unintended Consequence of leftist gullibility is now irrelevant; the fact is accomplished, the damage done.

What is certain is that a great many Americans of all generations are fed up with business-as-usual in the District of Columbia. We're tired of being treated like illiterate serfs who aren't bright enough to learn Latin and are therefore ignorant of the greater mysteries of Law, Science and Religion. We're annoyed by watching blithering moron trust-fund babies like John Kerry strut around in imitation of nobility, their entitlements hanging disgustingly out of their pants. We're frustrated to the point of murder with men who tells us whatever they feel they have to tell us to get elected, then renege on every promise as soon as power is theirs.

Whether a new generation can relearn the principles of exceptionalism, limited government and the responsibility of freedom in time to save the Republic is a matter for debate. I'm not hopeful, but anything is possible.