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The New Prohibition

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/06/abortion-roe-prolife-movement-prohibition/661402/ Roe Is the New Prohibition The pro-life movement needs to know that such culture wars result not in outright victory for one side but in reaction and compromise. By David Frum Temperance women breaking barrels of seized liquor during Prohibition. Members of the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union break open barrels of liquor seized during Prohibition, 1929. (New York Daily News / Getty) June 27, 2022, 1:50 PM ET About the author: David Frum is a staff writer at The Atlantic. The culture war raged most hotly from the ’70s to the next century’s ’20s. It polarized American society, dividing men from women, rural from urban, religious from secular, Anglo-Americans from more recent immigrant groups. At length, but only after a titanic constitutional struggle, the rural and religious side of the culture imposed its will on the urban and secular side. A decisive victory had been won, or so it

Federalist Society Fraud

Hey, Federalist Society: I got your 'Federalist' right here https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/6/25/2106429/-Hey-Federalist-Society-I-got-your-Federalist-right-here?pm_campaign=blog&pm_medium=rss&pm_source=main Dartagnan Community Saturday June 25, 2022 · 5:36 PM PDT Recommend 544 Share Tweet217 Comments 217 New WASHINGTON, DC - SEPTEMBER 27: Judge Brett Kavanaugh testifies to the Senate Judiciary Committee during his Supreme Court confirmation hearing in the Dirksen Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill September 27, 2018 in Washington, DC. Kavanaugh was called back to testify about claims by Christine Blasey Ford, who has accused him of sexually assaulting her during a party in 1982 when they were high school students in suburban Maryland. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images) Brett Kavanaugh, political operative and Federalist Society tool, now on the U.S. Supreme Court RSS PUBLISHED TO Dartagnan Community Contributors Team Daily Kos TAGS Conservatives Constitu

What is Conservatism?

What Is Conservatism and What Is Wrong with It? Philip E. Agre August 2004 https://pages.gseis.ucla.edu/faculty/agre/conservatism.html Liberals in the United States have been losing political debates to conservatives for a quarter century. In order to start winning again, liberals must answer two simple questions: what is conservatism, and what is wrong with it? As it happens, the answers to these questions are also simple: Q: What is conservatism? A: Conservatism is the domination of society by an aristocracy. Q: What is wrong with conservatism? A: Conservatism is incompatible with democracy, prosperity, and civilization in general. It is a destructive system of inequality and prejudice that is founded on deception and has no place in the modern world. These ideas are not new. Indeed they were common sense until recently. Nowadays, though, most of the people who call themselves "conservatives" have little notion of what conservatism even is. They have been deceived by one