Follow the Money

This is how they want you.

Just to cut to the big picture on the 'nuclear option', the right to filibuster and these awful fucking human beings they've decided to turn into judges.

It has nothing to do with cultural values.

Abortion? Gay marriage? Stem cell research? Right to die?

Macguffins, all of them.

Sure, there's millions of folks out there who get whipped up into a rage of pure white fury over this stuff - but they're the chumps. The people motivating all this, moving it, directing it. They have a plan.

Cultural values are the smokescreen. The white noise. The dazzle pattern.

This is what it's about:

Money. Power.

Which, of course, are the same thing.

Remember 'All the President's Men' (two American journalists questioning power and investigating a story: was it just a dream?) Remember the mantra: follow the money. Cuts through the noise everytime.

So let's follow the money:

The return of the conservative Constitution in Exile, Rosen argues, would mean, “reimposing meaningful limits on federal power that could strike at the core of the regulatory state for the first time since the New Deal. [New conservative] justices could change the shape of laws governing the environment, workplace health and safety, anti-discrimination, and civil rights, making it difficult for the federal government to address problems for which the public demands a national response.” Adam Cohen reminds us, "In pre-1937 America, workers were exploited, factories were free to pollute, and old people were generally poor when they retired. This is not an agenda the public would be likely to sign onto today if it were debated in an election. But conservatives, who like to complain about activist liberal judges, could achieve their anti-New Deal agenda through judicial activism on the right. Judges could use the so-called Constitution-in-Exile to declare laws on workplace safety, environmental protection and civil rights unconstitutional."

And by the way, they don't don't want to stop with the New Deal. After that, they'll repeal the Enlightenment. And then, the scientific revolution (except for weapons companies). Then the Magna Carta. And then, what remains of New Testament communitarianism. Till all you're left with is what these people truly believe in:

Tyrannic capitalism underpinned by the Book of Revelations.