wherever women are given the vote in whatever state, in whatever country, you see spending going through the roof.”
I mean when you look at the Democrats getting in there and spending $4 trillion. “Women see the government as their husbands. When Ann Coulter called for repealing the 19th Amendment which gave women the right to vote, she wasn’t trying to conserve anything in the living memory of Americans: it was ratified in 1920. When Republican Senator Ben Sasse wrote an op-ed for The Wall Street Journal arguing Congress should repeal the 17th Amendment - which gave citizens the right to vote for their senators, rather than having them appointed by corrupt political machines in the states - he wasn’t trying to “conserve” anything that has existed in the lifetime of anybody alive today.
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You see this across the spectrum, from relitigating classroom debates in an echo of the Scopes Monkey Trial or the trials against witches in the early days of this republic, to banning and publicly burning books. Rather than trying to conserve the status quo, they’re instead reacting to the last century of progress, trying to undo and then utterly reverse it. Reacting, as they do, to a new and improved world and then trying to reverse it, they’re by definition reactionaries.Īnd reactionary now describes most of today’s Republican Party in both houses of Congress and the 50 states, as well as the Republican appointees on the Supreme Court. That’s because when self-identified “conservatives” work to reverse progress, they’re not being conservatives in the true meaning of the word. While it’s clear who the progressives are - even the “Corporate Problem-Solver Dems” generally are willing to work toward a better world, just so long as one of their donors can make a buck off it - it’s entirely unclear who in American politics (outside of Liz Cheney or Mitt Romney) is an actual conservative.
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Similarly, their debates are typically about how policies to keep society stable work best and how to minimize their side effects. Generally, their debates are about how to best accomplish a healthier, happier, and more equitable society with a minimum of negative consequences.Ĭonservatives want the status quo to remain largely intact, to be conserved. Progressives want society to progress, to move forward to new and better futures. The words progressive and conservative have actual meanings, a fact that’s never mentioned in today’s political press. Our society’s and media’s political illiteracy is making it harder for many people to understand what’s happening.
Only Plessy v Ferguson and Dred Scott v Sandford have removed rights that had previously been recognized for generations, and both those decisions were in the 19th century. In fact, this decision is almost singularly like no other. This treatment of politics behaves as if both sides have equal levels of honesty, integrity, and good intent for the nation.īut that’s very much not how politics works in 2022, and the both-sides-ism of Sunday shows and “balanced” reporting endangers our democratic republic by behaving as if it is.
“This team won this season next season another team will win” goes the rhetoric, from newspapers to political podcasts. This is almost never mentioned out-loud or in mainstream media instead, its reality is lost in the tennis-like back-and-forth of journalism and opinion writing that treats politics as if it were simply another form of sports. The leaked SCOTUS decision on abortion isn’t a singular and lonely stream of misplaced misogyny instead, it’s part of a larger river of political efforts to turn the clock back to a bygone era when straight wealthy white men ruled everybody else with absolute, unquestioned power. The history of democracy moves forward, then is jerked back by reactionary forces, then moves forward again: it’s been going that way since ancient Greece. Sam Alito and his buddies may think they’re winning, but, if its any consolation, they’re on the wrong side of history and will ultimately lose.