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> From the perspective of individual rights and liberty, there is only one side that is destroying our country right now. "Individual rights" is the tail on th
by rayiner 2y ago
> From the perspective of individual rights and liberty, there is only one side that is destroying our country right now.
"Individual rights" is the tail on the constitution's "democratic republic" dog. It's just as bad when the public's right to regulate individual conduct is incorrectly limited in service of "individual rights," as when individual rights are incorrectly limited in service of expanding government power.
> If this "other side" were in power, my quarrel would be with them. But they are not - "your side" is.
The other side is in power, insofar as we are living with 60 years of precedents based on "emanations from penumbras." And about 30 years before that sanctioning an unconstitutional administrative state. If we are playing Calvinball, why should I be upset that the government isn't adopting a textualist-originalist view of the suspension clause?