SCOTUS, Condoms and Collateral Damage
If your boss stopped providing free lunches for you, would that mean he was trying to kill you by starving you to death? Or, could you simply choose to buy your own lunch with the money you made working at your job? For some progressives, having to buy your own lunch is tantamount to murder by starvation. That is the logic being used by some of the critics of the court's decision in the Hobby Lobby case. They try, instead, to frame it in terms of religious rights vs. a woman's right. If that doesn't work they use the old canard that, “Corporations don't have rights, because corporations aren't people!” That would mean that a business owner doesn't have the right to run their business as they see fit, within the framework of the law, of course. Meaning; that the government could simply treat business owners as non-entities, devoid of essential freedoms and impose on their business any governmental mandate, no matter how egregious its effect.
Somehow, progressives seem to believe they have the “right” to demand free things, that aren't really free at all, but are paid for by someone else. In this instance, their employer, but, in reality, paid for by consumers in the form of higher prices--and by the American people in the form of higher unemployment, slow economic growth and lower wages. Anyone with even a passing knowledge of economics understands this.
That, of course, is the real problem. Ignorance of most basic principals regarding the Constitution, of government, and of individual rights, are dismissed as the arcane stuff of old, dead, white males. Collectivist rights and demands are determined to trump individual rights and freedoms. That anyone, male or female, can freely go to your local drugstore and buy the very drugs debated in the SCOTUS case for about nine bucks a month, more cost effectively, mind you, is ignored.
“If only that obstinate little bastard called evidence would just go away, we might get somewhere.”
What's offered as a substitute for evidence? Rhetoric so overheated that it threatens to spontaneously-combust at the mere hint of life-giving oxygen. But that's always been the case. As far back as history records. Ideologues don't really care about any of that. They have priorities, feelings, thoughts, and that's all that really matters. The rest is just a bump in the road on their way to utopia. If some people have to suffer, oh well, think about how grand it will be in the end—and the end inevitably justifies the means. Everything else is collateral damage, including the truth.
Mark Magula
Somehow, progressives seem to believe they have the “right” to demand free things, that aren't really free at all, but are paid for by someone else. In this instance, their employer, but, in reality, paid for by consumers in the form of higher prices--and by the American people in the form of higher unemployment, slow economic growth and lower wages. Anyone with even a passing knowledge of economics understands this.
That, of course, is the real problem. Ignorance of most basic principals regarding the Constitution, of government, and of individual rights, are dismissed as the arcane stuff of old, dead, white males. Collectivist rights and demands are determined to trump individual rights and freedoms. That anyone, male or female, can freely go to your local drugstore and buy the very drugs debated in the SCOTUS case for about nine bucks a month, more cost effectively, mind you, is ignored.
“If only that obstinate little bastard called evidence would just go away, we might get somewhere.”
What's offered as a substitute for evidence? Rhetoric so overheated that it threatens to spontaneously-combust at the mere hint of life-giving oxygen. But that's always been the case. As far back as history records. Ideologues don't really care about any of that. They have priorities, feelings, thoughts, and that's all that really matters. The rest is just a bump in the road on their way to utopia. If some people have to suffer, oh well, think about how grand it will be in the end—and the end inevitably justifies the means. Everything else is collateral damage, including the truth.
Mark Magula
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