If you wrote a contract, wouldn’t you want it enforced per its original meaning? You certainly wouldn’t want the other party to modify it at will, would you? Well, the US Constitution is a contract between We the People and the federal government. It even contains an agreement on how it can be modified by mutual consent. It could even be rewritten to include whatever the left wants if they can convince enough people. That’s too difficult of course. It’s far easier to simply reinterpret the contract to mean whatever one wants. The left, unfortunately, has a big advantage here, because the right wants to hold to the original contract, while the left wants to expand it.
What a beautiful object lesson and analogy!!!
In fact that reply of yours deserves a "Hall of FReeper Fame" award!!!
Sincerely.
Which is why the increasing use of the word "fair" in political discourse sets my teeth on edge. "Fair" almost never appears in contracts because it's arbitrary and subjective. Contracts demand exact language. The use of "fair" brings with it an implication of improvisation, of making it up as we go along.