Conservative Fraud and Preserving the Social Contract, 6-18-2010

 Margaret Thatcher's idea of no civil society caught on with American conservatives and Libertarians of the Ayn Rand school. Politicians have used the idea to commit several particular frauds on the public about the federal constitution.

I am going to cite only two examples: abortion and school prayer. The conservative politicians claim that liberal activist judges brought about the current state of our law on these subjects. Then they want money for fighting some judge's nomination.

[Oh, boy, have not seen this year the effects of conservative activist judge? Remember Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization? sch 11/12/22]

So where is the fraud? The fraud comes from the amendment process. That is ignoring changing the Constitution in favor of judicial amendment.

When the Republicans had power from 2001 to 2006, did they propose an amendment permitting school prayer?

When the Republicans had power from 2001 to 2006, did they propose an amendment overruling Rose v. Wade?

No and no are the correct answers.

Why not? Remove these topics, and how would they raise money from social conservatives? I think they also feared proving their positions were truly minority opinions.

[Ah, I was typing this up and thinking myself more naive than my vanity likes until I got to that last sentence. The lesson of the midterms is that a total ban on abortion is very much a minority position. sch 11/12/212.]

In fairness, I do not see the liberals doing anything differently. I wish they would.

So why do social conservatives continue sending money to those politicians banging on about liberal activist judges? Consider Pavlov and his dogs.

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[This seems like a good enough place to put a link to Are "Christian Values" an $8.4M COVID fraud, explicit photos of teens & unAmerican autocracy? that came to me today through the Daily Kos. Seems to me, the good folks of St. Thomas Aquinas school would think me very dangerous when there was a danger closer to home. It is not that I want to minimize my criminal activity. It is that I think myself far, far less dangerous than I may appear. What I have seen, the people I met online, and a couple I met in prison, leave me unable to say there is no harm done, or incapable of being done. What I think is that the feeling of religion creates a thinking that justifies all bad behavior by the religious. Poor mental health explains my behavior; I do not try to justify my bad actions. Maybe we all would do better by listening to Charlie Daniels. sch 1217/22]