The Ignorant College Students with Contempt for the Constitution

By Selwyn Duke

"Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other," said John Adams in 1798. And an "any other" is certainly what we have today, as evidenced by Georgetown University students who, in anticipation of upcoming Constitution Day, were asked their feelings on the document. And the operative word really is "feelings" because these young dunderheads have neither facts nor sound philosophy. 

The video at the bottom of this post presents the interviews with these young "scholars," but first read what The Washington Times has to say about the matter:

Campus Reform asked Georgetown students, who have an average SAT score of 1460 and a high school GPA of 4.01, what they thought of the document George Washington said he would “never abandon.” They overwhelmingly disagreed with the nation’s first president and Revolutionary War hero.

Some of the responses by young “Hoyas,” include:

“People definitely take [the Constitution] too seriously, it’s not 250 years ago.”

“When it was written, we were considering things that absolutely don’t apply today.”

“I feel like sometimes people use the Constitution as an excuse to not think and to not work towards progress.”

“I come from North Carolina. There are a lot of people in that area who I think take the Constitution too seriously.”

“The Constitution itself and a lot of the amendments are probably taken a little bit too seriously.”

“Sometimes we’re afraid to think, I don’t know, in more utopian ways.”

“We have to keep updating like we would anything after, you know, like, the dictionary is updated once a week.”

Ironically, the nonprofit group’s video brings to mind a famous story about Ben Franklin being asked what form of government the delegates at the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia agreed upon in 1787. His answer: “A republic, if you can keep it.”

Georgetown students were not shown giving specifics as to which limits on federal power are taken “too seriously,” if they knew the proper amendment process, or which aspects of the Bill of Rights “don’t apply today.”

 

Wow, the stupidity...it hurts. These are people who deserve tyranny. And, unless something radically changes our culture's trajectory, that's precisely what they're going to get. 

(Hat tip: Rick Moran at American Thinker.)

Comments

[Chris]

Such verbal gobbledygook.

Nary a complete sentence to be found.

I thought Georgetown was a "good" school.

Yech.

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