Tag: Conservatives

Supreme Court???s Bruen Ruling is End of Gun Control, Maybe Democracy

Another big mass shooting happened. What a routine American catastrophe that will soon be followed with Republicans’ cliché exhortations for Thoughts&Prayers™. And Thoughts&Prayers™ will continue to do nothing to prevent the next American mass shooting. Conserv...

Dear Conservatives, I Don???t Want to Take Away Your Guns

I’m a liberal, and I’m not interested in a debate about the Second Amendment. I already know how it plays out. You’ll say it’s your right enshrined by the Constitution, and I’ll say a “well-regulated militia” was intended to fend off a tyrannical governme...

???One Vote Away???: Conservatives and the Myth of a Liberal Supreme Court

But it’s not just Ted Cruz. Perhaps the un-Cruziest Republican in the Senate, Mitt Romney, announced his support of allowing President Trump to name a replacement for Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the grounds that the Court has been liberal for too long. “My liberal friends have over ...

???My Body, My Choice! Unless You???re Trans??? Say Canada???s Conservatives

In his 1859 seminal work On Liberty, the philosopher John Stuart Mill wrote that people should be free to act in any manner they choose unless their actions cause harm to others. This became known as the Harm Principle, whereby the autonomy of the individual is supreme and is only to ...

Friendly Advice to Conservatives for 2024

Since only liberals can have their feelings hurt, you should have no issue reading this. Yes, that’s a challenge. Keep reading. The 2024 elections will be here before we know it and I already hear conservatives talking about which Presidential hopefuls they prefer. A phrase I hear over and ...