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Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop
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This is an excellent coda:
“The core conservative belief about the culture war is that there is a Real America that is conservative, and a usurper America that is liberal. This, not historical research, not legal analysis, is the prime means of constitutional interpretation for its current majority. And while the justices will both pretend and insist otherwise, the public need not flatter their imperious delusions. They should take the right-wing justices’ vow that other constitutional rights are safe for precisely what it is worth—which is to say, absolutely nothing.”
It is shocking some of what I’ve heard from radicals (they are not “conservative,” which is a defensible position, but “social radicals”) in response to my own angry comments.
I was advised that the states with trigger bans are “real America,” and in each instance, those states were compared to CA. So in one exchange I’d changed the comparison, noting that CA is left wing extreme, but that there are plenty of purple states, mine included, where we want the right to choose. I was told the purple states are gutless, like Roberts. They don’t have the guts to take a stand.
The right I’ve interacted with seems to want the fight, and respects its adversaries, more than it respects the middle.
The country’s irreparably rent. Less is on the right path.
