what in my mind is a load of BS.
I was talking with my very conservative family member and I off handedly referred to him as a member of the Republican Party when I was quickly corrected.
I'm not a Republican, I'm a Jeffersonian Constitutionalist.
Ok. ....I'm using my mind's local search engine, What's a Jeffersonian Constitutionalist?
His interpretation was that the government can't do what isn't specified in the U.S. Constitution and must regard the fifty State Constitutions as the law of the people first and the federal law as second (Article VI, Clause 2 not withstanding). Sigh. It was going to be one of those kinds of "discussions". I basically was told that the government was "too big", collected too much in taxes and intruded too much into our lives, wanted to take our guns and you can probably fill in the rest of this thread. Predictably, transvaginal probes were ok, as was voter ID (that isn't voter suppression, it's just good sense) and so on. As you might suspect he was very bitter at the outcome of the 2012 November election.
No surprise, we had a major difference of opinion on all of this. He could only bluster when I said transvaginal probes are far bigger government than most women want to contemplate. He balked at my assertion that gun laws are just a method of regulating our home grown militias. He laughed at the idea that taxes buy us civilization. Finally, he was brought up short by these concepts
1. Our deficits rose at a faster rate under George Bush
2. Obama is officially a job creator
3. War, tax cuts and Medicare Part D are a bigger driver of our deficits than Social Security.
4. Romney lost by nearly 5 million votes
5. The only reason the GOP won the House was by stacking the Congressional Districts' deck.
He recovered quickly after he heard #5, "Well, if that's what it takes to keep the right people in charge, then that's ok with me".
No reasoning. No critical thinking. Lots of anti-intellectualizing and denial of inconvenient truths. Our visit was short, but not short enough for any of us.
