It's been a bad week for conservatives, hasn't it ?
First we have the Pope recognizing that climate change is real and is a serious threat – and telling this to 1.2 BILLION people, many of whom, though undecided in the past, will now accept his point of view.
Then we have that pesky Supreme Court. First they rejected the attempt to eviscerate ObamaCare – a loss they should celebrate because if they had won they would definitely have lost the 2016 election. And then this terrible, terrible decision making it legal for people to marry anyone they want to marry, no matter what their sex. Conservatives have long claimed that legalizing marriage between same sex couples threatens normal heterosexual marriage, though no conservative yet has come up with a convincing argument explaining why this is so. It's just the natural conservative impulse to want to run people's lives under the banner of “freedom.”
The long-term trend in history is one of liberal ideology becoming stronger and stronger. The very establishment of this nation is one example. The advance of women's rights, the legalization of unions, the advance of civil rights, the establishment of social security, the establishment of Medicare and ObamaCare demonstrate this. Eventually, liberalism wins.
Yes, there are occasional bumps in the road. The Supreme Court decision to award the Presidency to George W. Bush was one. But we survived it. We didn't have a revolution, though most liberals thought the Court's decision was politically motivated. The fabric of our government held.
Liberal progress will continue. And because of this we'll have a better world .
First we have the Pope recognizing that climate change is real and is a serious threat – and telling this to 1.2 BILLION people, many of whom, though undecided in the past, will now accept his point of view.
Then we have that pesky Supreme Court. First they rejected the attempt to eviscerate ObamaCare – a loss they should celebrate because if they had won they would definitely have lost the 2016 election. And then this terrible, terrible decision making it legal for people to marry anyone they want to marry, no matter what their sex. Conservatives have long claimed that legalizing marriage between same sex couples threatens normal heterosexual marriage, though no conservative yet has come up with a convincing argument explaining why this is so. It's just the natural conservative impulse to want to run people's lives under the banner of “freedom.”
The long-term trend in history is one of liberal ideology becoming stronger and stronger. The very establishment of this nation is one example. The advance of women's rights, the legalization of unions, the advance of civil rights, the establishment of social security, the establishment of Medicare and ObamaCare demonstrate this. Eventually, liberalism wins.
Yes, there are occasional bumps in the road. The Supreme Court decision to award the Presidency to George W. Bush was one. But we survived it. We didn't have a revolution, though most liberals thought the Court's decision was politically motivated. The fabric of our government held.
Liberal progress will continue. And because of this we'll have a better world .
