The Right is Wrong

Misanthropic Boomer

The Supreme Court’s decision to allow the state of Texas to “legally” violate the civil rights of women by upholding the recently enacted SB-8 legislation, is akin to overturning Roe. That is, after all the Right’s openly stated goal. The Republicans, champions of small government want Big Brother to control the life of every pregnant woman in America. The really frightening thing is that this is just the beginning. Next will be voting restrictions, followed by another attempted palace coup in 2024.

It must be recognized that the Right has been stacking the courts and doing all of the nasty political grunt work necessary to accomplish their goals for more than fifty years. They have been following the playbook of far Right Wing Professor of Economics, James McGill Buchanan, who began his assault upon th U.S. Constitution in 1956, following the Supreme Court’s landmark decision in Brown vs. The Board of Education.

Buchanan was a student of the methods of Henry Clay, the wealthiest Congressman and Slave owner in the nation’s history. Professor Buchanan, like Clay, believed the propertied few should not be affected by the people’s desires for social change, regardless of morality or the fact that the majority of theelectorate supported such change.

Buchanan garnered the support of billionaire Libertarian, Charles Koch. Their main goal was to neuter the U.S. Constitution by putting States Rights above the needs of the people and the laws as laid out in the Constitution. They began using the same techniques in which Buchanan schooled Pinochet of Chile. He and his minions stacked the Chilean courts, gradually amending the Chilean Constitution until it

provided no authority to anyone other than El Presidente and his cabinet.

While the  Right has been marching in lock-step toward their goal, the Progressives have been locked in an ever expanding internecine struggle over the good not being good enough. Someone once said that getting the Democrats to agree on anything and to get them to come together to implement it is akin to attempting to herd cats. That, I am afraid, is a far too optimistic view.

I am just as angry and frustrated as anyone over the seeming inevitability of the reversal of Roe as well as the probability of an attempted coup in 2024. I am fairly certain that this is coming. I have raised the red flag time and again: begged people to share my predictions to no avail. My words have fallen on ears that refuse to hear and eyes that would rather not see. My predictions have all come to pass. I’m not proud of that…I’m angry as hell.

The progressives have a year to accomplish something of note, otherwise they will lose both the House and the Senate. If that happens all will be lost. Perhaps the saddest part of this coming tragedy is that it will embolden bad actors worldwide; democracies will be attacked from all sides and there will be no shining city on the hill to come to their rescue.

So spake the Atheist