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we are a nation that is populated by right-wing law-and-order types You do realize that trial lawyers vote overwhelmingly for Team Blue, right? And that the l

we are a nation that is populated by right-wing law-and-order types You do realize that trial lawyers vote overwhelmingly for Team Blue, right? And that the legal profession as a whole votes overwhelmingly for Team Blue? And that law schools themselves are overwhelmingly Team Blue voters? I get the whole "Red Team supports putting (their idea of) moral laws into the legal code", and that sucks, but the law problem exists because both teams are pushing it down the wrong track. Don't for a second think you can just blame flyover country for the current state of the legal system.

betterunix 14y ago
...so you think a party whose prominent politicians have a history of: * Using drone strikes to kill citizens who never received a trial * Sending paramilitary police teams in to raid medical marijuana facilities, at an accelerated rate, to promote the interests of friendly business partners * Negotiating secret trade agreements that promote the interests of another group of friendly business partners * Spend more on the military than on education * Ignore the expressed will of the people * Arrest opposition candidates who attempt to sit in the audience at presidential debates * Continue the expansion of executive power * Pass, and sign into law, a bill that allows indefinite imprisonment without trial ...to not be right wing? Oh, right, they support the right of gay people to marry. Congratulations, while gay people get to marry, the rest of us can be shot by soldiers serving a search-and-arrest warrant because a suspected drug dealer used to live at our address (or maybe not, whatever).
- erichocean 14y ago
  I assume "right-wing" is a synonym for Red Team, and "left-wing" a synonym for Blue Team. But your point is a good one: both teams support some appalling legal and military policies against their own citizens.

betterunix 14y ago

...so you think a party whose prominent politicians have a history of: * Using drone strikes to kill citizens who never received a trial * Sending paramilitary police teams in to raid medical marijuana facilities, at an accelerated rate, to promote the interests of friendly business partners * Negotiating secret trade agreements that promote the interests of another group of friendly business partners * Spend more on the military than on education * Ignore the expressed will of the people * Arrest opposition candidates who attempt to sit in the audience at presidential debates * Continue the expansion of executive power * Pass, and sign into law, a bill that allows indefinite imprisonment without trial ...to not be right wing? Oh, right, they support the right of gay people to marry. Congratulations, while gay people get to marry, the rest of us can be shot by soldiers serving a search-and-arrest warrant because a suspected drug dealer used to live at our address (or maybe not, whatever).

erichocean 14y ago
I assume "right-wing" is a synonym for Red Team, and "left-wing" a synonym for Blue Team. But your point is a good one: both teams support some appalling legal and military policies against their own citizens.