FireAndreaMitchell has written an excellent article that explains the ultimate goal of progressivism and the last remaining barrier which prevents them from reaching their statist goal.

To understand the threat of Progressivism, you must first understand the obstacle that Progressives detest. It is the Constitution. Progressives cannot accomplish their goal of a centralized government without first destroying the Constitution. They can’t get to equalization (and ultimately control) of each person because the Constitution prevents them from doing so.
There’s no better way to illustrate this than through the Constitution itself. So let’s start with the 9th Amendment:

The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.

The 9th Amendment tells the Federal Government that the rights enumerated to them does not mean that the people don’t have other rights that are not specifically addressed in the Constitution. It asserts that the Federal Government cannot violate those other rights retained by the people as well. That includes legal, natural, and inalienable rights of each individual. A perfect example is the right to privacy.

The 9th Amendment limits the scope and authority of the Federal government. It instructs us as to the construction of the Constitution. The Progressives must eliminate this in order to achieve their ultimate goal of centralized government to control the individual and violate the enumerated and unenumerated rights of the individual.

Next let’s move on to the 10th Amendment:

The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.

Instructions by the people to the Federal Government, for the people, don’t get much clearer than this. Each power that is granted to the Federal Government is enumerated in the Constitution. If you don’t see a power delegated to the Federal government there and it is not prohibited by it to the States, then those powers and rights are reserved EXCLUSIVELY to the States or the people.

The 9th and 10th Amendments are the most hated amendments of the Progressives. The 9th and 10th Amendments cover and clarify the 1st 7 articles and the first 8 Amendments of the Constitution. Why do the Progressives hate the 9th & 1oth Amendments so? Because, when the Constitution is followed properly, it eliminates their goal of a centralized government which exerts control into every aspect of an individual’s life. It stops their ability to violate the rights, both legal and natural of an individual.

One merely has to look at the words of Progressives:

Barack Obama:

“Just five days until we fundamentally transform America”

“We must lay a new foundation for growth and prosperity”

I don’t know about you but fundamentally transforming and laying a new foundation means you have to destroy the original foundation – The Constitution.

But let’s not just use the President as an example. Progressivism is pervasive through out Congress. In fact, the Progressive Caucus counts 83 declared members. Out of the 20 standing committees in the House of Representatives, 11 are chaired by Progressives.

There’s not a better example from a Progressive about exactly what Progressives are going to do to the Constitution than the most recent one from Nancy Pelosi on trying to pass their “health care reform”:

We’ll go through the gate, the gate’s closed. We’ll go over the fence, the fence is too high. We’ll pole vault in if that doesn’t work we’ll parachute in, but we’re going to get health care reform passed for the American people

That gate and fence that Pelosi and others talk about is THE Thorn of Progressives. That Thorn is the U.S. Constitution

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