Conservatives make me nervous

The original U.S. Constitution permitted slavery, yet many of today’s conservatives want the courts to rule by strict interpretation of the Constitution. They argue that the founders were men of vision who had a better grasp of today’s world than we do. Unfortunately somebody in the conservative camp is overlooking a little Civil War that this nation had to fight to correct omissions of liberty written into the Constitutional document.

It’s true that laws today have been ‘created’ through the courts, but I’ve yet to find one that adversely affects me. In fact I enjoy benefit when all people are allowed to participate in the community. I enjoy benefit when manufactures cannot skimp while making an aluminum ladder or when attaching a gas tank under my family vehicle. Further, I enjoy benefit knowing that the people in this nation can question the legality of majority rulings if they adversely affect the citizenry. The checks and balances of the Constitution ensure that We the People can keep the nation from falling too far one way or the other.

Maybe the real issue goading the conservatives is about ‘abortion rights’ that were ‘created’ by the courts to meet our changing national needs. In some respects the law makes sense in a country covered up by so many laws that we can’t possibly put anybody else in jail, and can’t possibly enforce many of the basic issues that do affect Americans every day. Realistically, how can our government micro-manage everybody’s life when they can’t even balance the household budget, get the drunks off the road, or register all the people living here?

To fight against abortion, the conservatives say the Constitution holds no mention of ‘public privacy,’ which was the basis for permitting abortion. Meanwhile the conservatives are very busy mining nuggets out of ‘public privacy’ with their warrantless eavesdropping on U.S. communications, and in doing so they defy the congress, the courts, and people like me who simply want to know what’s going on.

Seems the conservatives are willing to do or say anything to reach their aim. And what exactly is their aim: to turn back to a ‘moral centering’ while lying and breaking laws? But the real insult to Americans is how they crank up their base at election time by claiming rampant immorality in this nation just to get re-elected. This is dishonesty of the highest order because our people are not immoral and we don’t need any more laws that make us so.

I wonder if the conservatives want a Constitution at all? Maybe the ‘old-timey’ revisionists want us to return to the real original manuscript and convert everybody to chant and prayer using a book written in the Middle East two or three thousand years ago … do they prefer that book over our Constitution? Because they’re not telling everyone that the scripture they tout permits the same omissions of liberty that we fought-over during the Civil War. And that’s why these guys make me nervous; they abridge freedom while claiming divine right to do so.
Gene Haynes