My column this week at the UK’s Guardian is headlined “Careening down the slippery slope.” It begins this way…
Americans – most notably right-leaning Americans – used to issue dire warnings about sliding down “the slippery slope” on any number of hot-button political issues. From the slippery slope of same-sex marriage to the slippery slope of gun control to the slippery slope of abortion rights to the slippery slope of immigration and on and on, various political interest groups in America guarded that slope, with no small amount of zeal, lest any of us find our God-given rights or once-vaunted rule of law lost for good before we even noticed.
Bad news. We’ve lost our God-given rights, at least our constitutional ones, and certainly the rule of law. The US is now in full-plummet down the slippery slope, due, in no small part, to a lack of courage, willingness, interest and imagination of those who might have kept it from happening long ago.
Please check out the full article…
Well written but I wish you had included Senator Bernie Sanders.
This says what has happened:
“A society of sheep must in time beget a government of wolves.”
–Bertrand de Jouvenal
Yup, very good Brad…And commenter Sleat nailed it IMO.
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I rather be called pesky than homegrown terrorist!