God, I am so sick of listening to libertarians and teanuts yammer on and on about a Constitution that exists only in their imaginations.

Look Bozo, under the real Constitution, as written and as interpreted by the U.S. Supreme Court, the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was and is a perfectly Constitutional exercise of Congressional power, one that has made this country immeasurably better than it was before. It has fundementally changed the American conception of morality, redefined the civic boundaries and reset expectations of normal and decent behavior. I assume you're just too damn young to remember how white people--both north and south--acted, talked and thought in this country two generations ago, but I am. To suggest it hasn't done anything of use is just willful ignorance of the most pernicious kind.

The purpose of the Civil Rights Act was to break down the very social system that propagated racism, change the social norm from one of approval or acceptance to one of at least outward abhorrance and it succeeded brilliantly. By forcing restaurants to serve black people, we forced whites to eat with them which, in turn, cracked the underlying mentality that the world would end or something if the races mixed in social, work and public contexts.

And that was a perfectly Constitutional exercise of the Commerce power granted to Congress by the Constitution, one that accomplished transformative social good, all at the terrible "cost" of forcing some hateful ignoramuses to expand their customer base.

I wish like hell you people would just go start your own goddamned country somewhere where you could live under your imaginary Constitution in an unrestrained capitalist. I really wish you could do tha instead of constantly whining about wanting my country "back." No. You can't have it. We're using it and we like having a government that governs.

And you're a tiny, deranged minority so, no, you can't have it.

I suggest Somolia. You'll love it. Just your kind of place. No government to speak of.