Mike Turro says...Until the Tea Party comes out in favor of ending the drug war, leagalizing prostitution, and unfettered access to abortion I simply cannot accept their anti government rhetoric and talk of tyranny as anything other than political cover for something else entirely - some hidden, dark agenda.
Mike Turro says...
Until the Tea Party comes out in favor of ending the drug war, leagalizing prostitution, and unfettered access to abortion I simply cannot accept their anti government rhetoric and talk of tyranny as anything other than political cover for something else entirely - some hidden, dark agenda.
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So, back to my point. Either you are of the opinion that government indeed has a role to play in parsing and regulating the fundamentally divisive moral issues of our time - or you think the government has no place sticking it’s nose into the debate and should let citizens hash these things out for themselves. If you think the government should keep out - and if you start trading in the vernacular of revolution and violence when it does not keep out - then you should at least have the intellectual honesty to apply the same standard to all socially contested moral issues. If you don’t do that then you’re not really anti-government - you’re not libertarian, or revolutionary - you’re just myopically, egocentrically pro-you.
[–For the sake of clarity: my position on these matters is that the government indeed has a role to play in regulating the very sticky and hotly contested moral issues of our time - whether that’s abortion, drugs, or health care.–]
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