That’s the reality.
I’m not saying I like it or agree in principle with anything.
Here’s what I think....
One of the requirements to be a Conservative, (and it’s not a litmus test) is to be a thinking human being.
Realities, right, wrong or indifferent, are the current reality we deal with day to day.
I am 65 years old, and there are a lot of things that we as a society must deal with and don’t always deal with correctly or fairly.
To give you a recent example, I am currently as I type, listening to a I-Heart radio station in Louisiana as I am following the Vitter/Edwards race and they have Limbaugh on right now. The news at the break spoke about a young man who was arrested last weekend, I did not catch the reason but that not what cracked me up about the story.
The young mans father is trying mightily to bail him out, and the State has forbid him to do so, at least until now...
That’s a pretty bad deal right, as the court has set the bail and yet the boys father can’t bail him out..
The reason is that Louisiana has a law that forbids attorneys from bailing out suspects.
The Boys father is a attorney!
I laughed for a 5 minutes on that one and I’m still grinning.
Realities are very frequently absurd.
Coloradans running about with joints hanging out of their mouths is absurd.
Californians going to a MJ doctor for a prescription so he can get high and share it with his buds is absurd.
Young people going to prison for 3-5 years for selling weed is absurd.
Forcing people to buy medical insurance is absurd.
Killing babies in the womb is absurd.
Preparing for flooded coastal areas and spending billions to eliminate CO2, due to global warming is absurd.
Life is full of absurdities, oddities, and senseless things of all kinds. Some of them we can and should deal with, but the reasons it is never dealt with are generally political and even that is absurd.
So abortion is a right because the courts say so - and for conservatives to argue otherwise is a "pretense"?
That's the reality.
I'm not saying I like it or agree in principle with anything.
Will you say you dislike that the federal government has - with court acquiescence - exercised authority over intrastate pot policy contrary to the language of the Constitution?