Writing in the Atlantic, Garrett Epps saw the majority [for the Court] defending the proposition that harnessing religion for "public and civil duty" is a great idea. He then wrote about James Madison's veto message of 1811, noting the clear parallel: "he sent back to Congress a bill that would have funneled tax money to a church in the District of Columbia to operate a school." (Justice Scalia's version of originalism doesn't much abide legislative intent or the fact of vetoes on behalf of the people.) Back in reality, instances illustrate the creative ways in which Republicans have used the recent ruling to have their cake and eat it too. In some cases funds dedicated as scholarships for the poor landed in the laps of those already in the private school. Clever, these Republicans! They are out for number one. There is no such thing as doing what is right for the community or state or nation. They truly are apostles for J. P. Morgan. And they truly are proud of it. They are the entitled hypocrites of our era.
And why exactly are Republicans so attached to this curious topic? It manifestly is not helping the underclass, with the pitifully tiny exceptions of exceptional students. They want what they want and they want it for as low a cost as possible. Like everything else in the marketplace, morality is what they and the market says it is. Which is precisely the problem. They care for nothing but themselves, meaning that they use and abuse all else, justifying whatever they can on the morality of the marketplace. Clever, convenient, cruel and unconscionable.
We don't need Republicans to run markets. The way things are at present, we hardly need them for anything. They have outlived their usefulness and should be retired -- e arly, and with no pension (too expensive) or five finger access to health insurance. All of a sudden the gears start turning"when the misery done by Republicans to all others (on the highest principles known to morals and economics, mind you) comes home to roost, it is amazing how an arrogant tone-deaf brat can become nearly human, almost caring, very nearly sincere. I can easily understand how some of these personal experiences could lead to an even larger change, that of leaving their forlorn and threadbare Party behind. There is something called shame; sometimes it takes a catastrophe for the bent mind to experience its pangs and begin to respond to the warmth of another human being.
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