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If you're trying to demonstrate just how ridiculous political polarization in the US has become, you're doing a pretty great job.

• sneak 6y ago
  Human rights aren't a partisan issue.
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  • throwaway0a5e 6y ago
    >Human rights aren't a partisan issue. Guns and fetuses beg to differ. (Though at least in US politics both issues seem to be trending slowly toward majority agreement and becoming non-partisan issues.)
  • NovemberWhiskey 6y ago
    Very few people are against "human rights". There is, however, very real controversy about whether and the extent to which various rights are included in the bundle of human rights; and some of those divide along US partisan lines.
    • jimbobimbo 6y ago
      It's not the amount of rights that's the issue, it's what is the source of rights. Conservatives (and US declaration of independence) posit that rights are from God (i.e. preexist government, if you don't want to bring God into discussion), while democrats view government as the source of the same. Depending which side you are on, your view on the role of government is very different (protect the rights vs. create the rights). I think this perspective explains why e.g. Supreme Court Justice position is so highly contested. If your position is that government's role is to protect rights, then judge is just a person who reads the law or the case and tells you if it's aligned with the Constitution or not. If you're on the opposite side, judicial system is just another vehicle to create new rights and laws, bypassing less predictable (due to its representation model) Congress.