What Digby Said

You know the drill. Read this piece of Digby's brilliance...then go read the whole post.

There are many things that engage me in politics. But what evokes my passion are civil liberties and social justice. The fundamental underpinning of those values in the American experiment reside in the Declaration of Independence and our constitution. I wish we could rely on people's good natures or the evolution of our civilization to make those ancient documents unnecessary, but it's quite clear that we can't. Without them, all of those fine ideals will never be realized. Indeed, we won't even be able to hang on to what we already have.

It's more obvious today than it ever was since rather than progressing as we mostly have in our history, America is backsliding at a rather alarming rate at the very time when the stakes couldn't be higher. We are the most powerful nation on earth and in grave danger of becoming the most loathed nation on earth. That is a very dangerous place to be.

Standing up for our constitution is essential to our liberty as citizens and our safety as a country. Chris Dodd is leading the way, and good for him.

This actually bookends nicely on my previous post on the extent to which we have to engage now to protect our Constitution, our country's DNA, from changing the way our government fundamentally works. And by "bookends" I mean "is expressed in a far more artful and powerful way than I was able to achieve."

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