I agree with you. If the overwhelming majority have concluded that (at least certain aspects of) a modern welfare state should be beneficial, the proper way to organize it would be to pass a constitutional amendment. Personally I would oppose such an amendment, but I can understand that my reservations might stand outside the electoral majority.
The double affront, however, is that most of the components of the modern welfare state (on the federal level) have come not by amendment but by arbitrary and bizarre opinions imagined by certain factions on the federal Supreme Court. The first affront is the attack on traditional American notions of self-reliance. The second is that they have been established through vastly debauched notions of constitutional law.
