1.) TAKE NOTES. I do not normally respond to outrage or cultural disgust. Our  constitution was written by an aristocracy that was mainly Educated In Cambridge. Those were the values they carried with them. Call it cultural whiplash.

2.) Most Americans only knew there was some kind document that the wise, rich, educated, pseudo Landed-Gentry, were the men (only) who founded institutions in the donor’s name. The British still have a system where foundations flourish. The poor farmer can barely breathe. No one put him in charge of the Constitution. The grey old men usually win.

3.) We are stuck with their values that are not values. Owning slaves is not a value. Owning slaves was a pornography. It still is. The grey old men men are still a pornography.

4.) The Revolutionary War and that late unpleasantness were all the same war. The pseudo-Landed Gentry traveled south. God help us. Carrying their contracts. They knew how to write them because they, too, could write that old thing. You’all let us away to prison and save them, go to states rights. The constitution is an asshole, but it’s our only asshole if you can keep it.

5.) We live within the confines of an asshole constitution that reads (check it out) like a gag order and balls and chains. French. SCOTUS cannot enforce its rules. Goldberg is right. They are powerless and need the good will of the people who trust them – the whole thing is about trust. And god. Do we need a new one, or do we go republic. The poor will rebel. The conservatives will rebel. And so they did. The Constitutional ls a rat trap. Maybe a new rat trap. When it comes to actual justice, arrest Alioto.