This is a note I wrote elsewhere this morning, and wanted to share here, about just how crazy the right is in its excesses on ‘originalism’ to try to answer policy issues.
When you think about it, it is very irrational to look to a few people in 1776 to tell us how to govern our society today.
Why the hell couldn't they tell us how to deal with the issues of Monsanto corporation? They would be the first to say, you idiots figure out how to run your society.
They didn't exactly lay down rules with today's economic system, technology, mass population, pollution, and many other things - that was left up to people to deal with.
They simply gave us a basic system for governing, not some set in stone how to govern rules.
It's really a totally irrational, cult-like, impractical bunch of nonsense trying to claim that the founding fathers answered issues on policy for America today.
It makes me wonder if these 'conservatives' have some sort of parent issues.
Like when the decided what to wear as an adult based on what their parents said is the right dress when they were children. It's sick.
And it's also corrupt, as they try to use the prestige of the founding fathers to claim that the founding fathers agree with whatever policies they want but can't defend rationally.
They seem to be confusing governing systems with religious documents like the ten commandments. Set in stone (literally). Not rational policies for people to change for changing needs.
That doesn't mean there aren't things to preserve - the Bill of rights and other things remain pretty great.
But where do the ten commandments say it's wrong for you to own a slave? To rape someone?
The commandments against murder and bearing false witness are still the same commandments. But not polluting the environment too much is a pretty good rule to add.
We have enough trouble with the ten commandments - like not killing millions of Vietnamese or Iraqis wrongly.
We are really, basically, dealing with an ideological cult who thinks it’s ‘real America’.