Ross Douthat’s latest opinion piece with the New York Times has left me a little bothered, especially in terms of the implications of his advocacy.
I might be a bit frustrated at him.
First of all, a happier note: congrats to everybody affected by the Proposition 8 ruling recently passed in California. This wasn’t a strikedown of a ban – it was a reaffirmation that the right to love is universal to all human beings, regardless of sexual orientation. The fact that the California government would have been demanded to interfere directly and preemptively in the personal relationships of its citizens should have been an affront to the state’s and nation’s conservatives and libertarians – the fact that it was, in the end, the liberals and progressives that would uphold a conservative stance on the universality of human rights, a position stemming from the days of John Locke, and a strict interpretation of the US Constitution will remain on the records as one of the biggest moments of social and political irony in the nation’s history.
And the moment when the so-called “conservatives” were seen for the theological fascists they are – worse, one of the few times when the use of the word “Fascism” is contextually and formally appropriate. Great going guys. Really. Only, not.
But enough of that. I’m pissed off that Proposition 8 got passed in the first place. I’m pissed off whenever its kin elsewhere gets passed, whenever its opposites fail to pass, and whenever asstards from the Newt Gingrich School of Opportunistic Conservatism are allowed to make a mockery of the country’s ideals and win elections off of their ideologically suspect, rationally specious and grossly self-serving positions.
And I blame you, those of you that agree with my sociopolitical inclinations, for allowing them to have gained so much sway over the dumb and unthinking masses.
I warned Xjello, when he asked if I wanted to write for this blog as well, that I’d pretty much be spamming TL;DR posts about political wankery coming from the American Conservative movement. Guess what I’m writing about today?! I’ll try and keep it brief: basically, the Conservative Movement’s hypocrisy and ideological short-sightedness is getting a bit old.
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