It’s Time For The Right To Rededicate Ourselves To The Moral Vision Of The American Founding
Now is the time to let prudence and cool deliberation dictate how to move forward as we roll up our sleeves and get to work. Now is the time for courage.
By Caleb Pascoe
January 20, 2021
The fallout from Jan. 6 riots almost totally eclipsed any discussion of the radical new Democratic senators from Georgia.
In anticipation of victory in Georgia, Democratic politicians and pundits echoed the policy proposals they have been championing all year. Packing the Supreme Court, eliminating the filibuster in the Senate, and adding new states to the union to cement a Democratic majority in Congress are but a few of the proposals that have been floating around. The party is increasingly moving away from the zone Joe Biden used to represent.
Often, Americans hear individuals like Sen. Bernie Sanders or Rep. Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez invoke the platitude of “human rights†as the basis for their policy proposals. For most leftists, rights are the product of time, circumstance, and society, not things rooted in a concrete human nature. The left uses the “human rights†claim to justify everything from abortion and gun control to redistribution of wealth and “free†health care, as Sanders so often declares.
The left invokes this kind of language because they are making a moral argument for why Americans should go along with their policies that are contrary to the political theory of the American Founding. The modern left not only rejects the claims of the American Founding, they are outright hostile to them (as seen in the 1619 Project). It is this embattled philosophy that conservatives must continue to champion and conserve.
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