I think you make a pretty darned good point there, Ebbie. I think the skepticism of liberals hurts them with the public, especially as t.v. candidates. One would prefer simple answers that just sound good.

One would prefer to just say We believe in the Constitution, rather than worry about the parts that condoned slavery, the inherent problems of equitable democratic representation, the kinds of questions of democracy that the framers could not forsee. So much easier to suppose our founding Dads knew everything.