It really does confuse me that “just sue the government whenever it violates your rights” as a conservative alternative to passing better laws didn’t die with the decade (and counting) of harassment Jack Phillips and Masterpiece Cakeshop have experienced.https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.christianpost.com/amp/qa-with-jack-phillips-courage-in-a-post-christian-society.html …
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People will frame this as legislating morality, anti-small government, whatever. But, at its root, it’s a recognition that legislatures need to legislate, and that task can be done for reasons both good and ill. We shouldn’t ignore an entire branch of government.
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But the libertarian brainworms, from the Austrian economists through Reagan’s “drown it in a bathtub” government to the modern day, have infected the conservative movement to a degree where considering this is heresy.
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I've a strong suspicion the lawyers were like the RAF in the Interwar Years. "We can do it cheaply, and safely -no need for massive armies or navies." Then WWII happened and Britain supported strategic bombing because all they had was an air force. So too, us and lawyers now.
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I've been a bit embroiled in trying to achieve change. The system is broken. I have acknowledgment from several bodies now with advice to personally lobby government being the latest. Ha ha f***ing ha

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