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Advancing backwards with all haste
Jun. 1st, 2010 07:06 pmFrom my outsider’s pov, the American right wing appears to be marching resolutely and somewhat ridiculously into the past.
Rand Paul, the Republican nominee in Kentucky, thinks that parts of the Civil Rights Act of the 1960s were an over-reach and that the Government should have had no role in dismantling the system of discrimination in private business in the South. As well as being a splendid example of how the doctrine of Libertarianism has no relationship to reality, he is advocating abandoning fifty years of what I would see as significant social progress.
However, others disagree that the rot began in the 1960s and they instead see the 1860s as the problem. The latest Supreme Court nominee has been criticised because she said the American constitution was ‘flawed’ in the sense that it had to be fixed up with a Civil war. Yes, the question of whether or not slavery is wrong is actually being contested by the American right. In 2010.
Still, this position seems relatively moderate if you compare it with Sue ‘Chicken Lady’ Lowden who suggested the health system could be fixed by dismantling the monetary system and returning to barter. (I exaggerate her position only slightly). So, not the 1960s, or the 1860s but some time BCE.
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Rand Paul, the Republican nominee in Kentucky, thinks that parts of the Civil Rights Act of the 1960s were an over-reach and that the Government should have had no role in dismantling the system of discrimination in private business in the South. As well as being a splendid example of how the doctrine of Libertarianism has no relationship to reality, he is advocating abandoning fifty years of what I would see as significant social progress.
However, others disagree that the rot began in the 1960s and they instead see the 1860s as the problem. The latest Supreme Court nominee has been criticised because she said the American constitution was ‘flawed’ in the sense that it had to be fixed up with a Civil war. Yes, the question of whether or not slavery is wrong is actually being contested by the American right. In 2010.
Still, this position seems relatively moderate if you compare it with Sue ‘Chicken Lady’ Lowden who suggested the health system could be fixed by dismantling the monetary system and returning to barter. (I exaggerate her position only slightly). So, not the 1960s, or the 1860s but some time BCE.
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