In Sumner's recent very selective concerns about civil liberties he said this.
"In the future, selling pot will be legal in all 50 states. Historians will look back in disbelief that 400,000 people were in prison for using and selling drugs. They’ll read about Republican politicians who only began worrying about dirty needles when it affected their voters. They’ll read about Democratic politicians who were more interested in inequality, gay marriage and a few hundred terrorists in Guantanamo than in 400,000 people (disproportionately African American) in prison for engaging in capitalism between consenting adults. People like Ulbricht (and Ed Snowden) will be viewed as martyrs. Both parties (and much of the media) are so corrupt, so authoritarian, that the voters are finally rising up in one state after another. It’s a pretty sad state of affairs when the masses have more enlightened views on criminal justice than the elites."
http://diaryofarepublicanhater.blogspot.com/2015/06/sumner-shows-worthlessness-of.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+DiaryOfARepublicanHater+%28Diary+of+a+Republican+Hater%29
Some of his commentators rightfully wondered why he seemed to be dismissing gay rights. He elaborated:
"Some commenters thought I was implying that gay rights are not important. On the contrary, I think they are very important. But I think that right now the war on drugs is a far more important problem. In 1950 I would have argued (I would hope) that gay rights were a far more pressing issue than the war on drugs."
I guess what he's saying is that the struggle for gay rights-including gay marriage-has been won. Someone forgot to tell Scott Walker that:
"The other day, Scott Walker declared that if the Supreme Court rules for a Constitutional right to gay marriage, he’d support a Constitutional amendment allowing states to ban it. This stance would not have been surprising coming from Mike Huckabee, Bobby Jindal, or Ted Cruz. But coming from a self-styled reform governor who represents a new generation of leaders, it turned a lot of talking heads."
http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2015/06/yeah-scott-walker-social-troglodyte-news
The reality is there just aren't any moderates in teh GOP anymore. Jeb Bush going by his record is way to the Right of his brother on abortion. While he now says he makes an exception for rape, incest, and the life of the mother, that wasn't his policy when Governor of Florida.
http://diaryofarepublicanhater.blogspot.com/2015/06/scott-walker-field-general-in-war.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+DiaryOfARepublicanHater+%28Diary+of+a+Republican+Hater%29
Moderates like Charlie Crist and Lincoln Chafee ultimately become independents and finally, Democrats.
When the Very Serious People in the media-a la David Brooks, Bob Woodward, etc-tell you that this or that GOPer is more moderate and reasonable ignore them.
Similarly 'libertarians' who try to tell you that they are in any way distinguishable from conservatives. It's all a shell game.
"In the future, selling pot will be legal in all 50 states. Historians will look back in disbelief that 400,000 people were in prison for using and selling drugs. They’ll read about Republican politicians who only began worrying about dirty needles when it affected their voters. They’ll read about Democratic politicians who were more interested in inequality, gay marriage and a few hundred terrorists in Guantanamo than in 400,000 people (disproportionately African American) in prison for engaging in capitalism between consenting adults. People like Ulbricht (and Ed Snowden) will be viewed as martyrs. Both parties (and much of the media) are so corrupt, so authoritarian, that the voters are finally rising up in one state after another. It’s a pretty sad state of affairs when the masses have more enlightened views on criminal justice than the elites."
http://diaryofarepublicanhater.blogspot.com/2015/06/sumner-shows-worthlessness-of.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+DiaryOfARepublicanHater+%28Diary+of+a+Republican+Hater%29
Some of his commentators rightfully wondered why he seemed to be dismissing gay rights. He elaborated:
"Some commenters thought I was implying that gay rights are not important. On the contrary, I think they are very important. But I think that right now the war on drugs is a far more important problem. In 1950 I would have argued (I would hope) that gay rights were a far more pressing issue than the war on drugs."
I guess what he's saying is that the struggle for gay rights-including gay marriage-has been won. Someone forgot to tell Scott Walker that:
"The other day, Scott Walker declared that if the Supreme Court rules for a Constitutional right to gay marriage, he’d support a Constitutional amendment allowing states to ban it. This stance would not have been surprising coming from Mike Huckabee, Bobby Jindal, or Ted Cruz. But coming from a self-styled reform governor who represents a new generation of leaders, it turned a lot of talking heads."
http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2015/06/yeah-scott-walker-social-troglodyte-news
The reality is there just aren't any moderates in teh GOP anymore. Jeb Bush going by his record is way to the Right of his brother on abortion. While he now says he makes an exception for rape, incest, and the life of the mother, that wasn't his policy when Governor of Florida.
http://diaryofarepublicanhater.blogspot.com/2015/06/scott-walker-field-general-in-war.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+DiaryOfARepublicanHater+%28Diary+of+a+Republican+Hater%29
Moderates like Charlie Crist and Lincoln Chafee ultimately become independents and finally, Democrats.
When the Very Serious People in the media-a la David Brooks, Bob Woodward, etc-tell you that this or that GOPer is more moderate and reasonable ignore them.
Similarly 'libertarians' who try to tell you that they are in any way distinguishable from conservatives. It's all a shell game.
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