Let's take the enthusiastic support for breaking up Big Tech on FR. There is no Constitutional basis for such activity. It rests on a bastardized interpretation of the Commerce Clause. To support break-ups is akin to supporting the equally-flimsy Constitutional basis for Roe. I guess it's ok to just let the govt do whatever, as long as it is OUR side calling the shots.
The anti-Wall Street sentiments on FR are cousins of the anti-1 percent rabble. All that's missing on our side is the absence of hygiene and dreads.
To be fair, most FReepers remain classical liberals on 95% of the issues. But whereas the 5% disagreement was simply about minutiae yesteryear, today disagreement is like DU planted a chip in their head.
I hope that makes sense.
I'm beginning to feel that way too.
I've heard some on the right suggest that we are at "the looting stage" of civilization.
I take this to mean that at a certain point, civilization has declined so far, the corruption is so deep, the stealing so widespread, there's no turning back. To follow a "rule of law" that no longer exists, or abide by "principles" which the majority tramples upon, is to engage in unilateral disarmament. It's time to press every advantage, principles be damned.
I'm talking about political principles being discarded, not Christian morality. The former are ephemeral, the latter eternal.