Rational Resistance: The Left Call

Alito’s Supreme Affront of 9th Amendment Kills ‘Roe’

David K. Sutton — Sat, 25 Jun 2022 00:08:32 +0000

Today the Supreme Court deserted 49 years of precedent in striking down Roe v. Wade, paving the way for states to ban abortion. In Justice Alito’s majority opinion, he states because the Constitution does not mention abortion, there is no constitutional right to abortion. It’s remarkable to me a sitting Supreme Court justice in 2022 would make such an argument given the long history of such foolish arguments, but this is how religion and righteousness can cloud one’s judgement.

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What’s The Deal With Trump Followers?

David K. Sutton — Fri, 09 Oct 2020 06:54:16 +0000

Five years ago when Donald Trump rode that escalator and announced his candidacy, everyone including most people who are now Trump-for-lifers, believed it was a stunt, and he was clearly unqualified. In the subsequent year-and-a-half of the campaign, one-by-one candidates dropped until one candidate remained, The Donald. Along the way, he gained a loyal following, and in the final months of the 2016 election, even many Republicans who previously mocked him were now onboard, even some people who proclaimed themselves to be “Never Trumpers.”

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Constitutional Originalism’s Conceited Intent

David K. Sutton — Fri, 24 Mar 2017 22:44:37 +0000

It is an audacious pursuit to divine an assertive original context from a text written by men who themselves did not agree. Such is the conceit of constitutional originalism and it’s disciples. Even a modest history lesson divulges the disagreements among the founders — whether a Bill of Rights should exist, or even if there ought to be a constitution at all.

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Can We Blame The Internet For Political Polarization?

David K. Sutton — Thu, 23 Mar 2017 04:45:53 +0000

It seems logical to blame the internet for our growing political polarization. Some blame “fake news” shared on Twitter and Facebook for the outcome of the 2016 election. And we know tens of millions of Americans get their news from social media.

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Cartoon: Baby Donald’s Budget Priorities

David K. Sutton — Wed, 22 Mar 2017 00:18:18 +0000

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Russian Election-Hacking Bingo, Conspiracies For Liberals

David K. Sutton — Thu, 16 Mar 2017 20:28:56 +0000

With giddy pride, liberals have deservedly vilified an expansive sea of right-wing conspiracy theories. But it now appears those seditious chickens have come home to a roost of left-wing treachery. Modern liberalism has become a hospitable nesting place for paranoia in the months since President Donald Trump’s election. With vociferous oratory growing in the weeks after his inauguration, left-wing talk show hosts and liberal pundits have stoked the base to a level of conspiratorial thinking previously thought reserved for conservative talk radio.

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Paul Ryan’s Priority. Hint: It’s Not Affordable Health Care

David K. Sutton — Tue, 14 Mar 2017 03:38:37 +0000

This past Sunday on Face The Nation, host John Dickerson asked Speaker Paul Ryan how many people will lose health care coverage under Ryan’s “American Health Care Act.” Ryan’s answer informs us to his priority.

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Don’t Force ‘Sanctuary Cities’ To Do Fed’s Job

David K. Sutton — Sat, 11 Mar 2017 22:01:52 +0000

Conservative commentators characterize sanctuary cities as legal apostates, but the principles in practice in sanctuary cities share little with that description. It’s the latest example of the Right’s inability to parse the weeds of reality, seeking to find comforting answers attuned to black and white and good vs. evil.

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With ‘Fatal Conceit,’ Speaker Paul Ryan Fails Insurance 101

David K. Sutton — Fri, 10 Mar 2017 18:28:48 +0000

It appears Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) is deeply disturbed that insurance premiums paid by healthy people help offset the insurance costs of people who are sick. But that is exactly how health insurance works. In fact, it’s how all insurance works. It’s called spreading the risk. In any insurance pot, there is a minority segment who are higher risk, and these higher risk individuals rightfully pay higher premiums. But in addition to those high-risk premiums, the low-risk majority chips-in to cover the greater cost outlay to insure the high-risk minority.

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Republicans Cannot ‘Solve’ Health Care In Good Faith

David K. Sutton — Wed, 08 Mar 2017 23:27:13 +0000

Fiscal conservatism defines nearly all Republicans, even if decades of failed economic promises say otherwise, but the modern Republican Party is also a collective of combative factions. There are extreme social conservatives who often vote based on social wedge issues like abortion. There are moderate social conservatives who tend to go along with many social conservative positions, but who are primarily fiscal hawks. And there are extreme fiscal hawks who lean libertarian, and in many cases reject some of the more offensive tenets of social conservatism.

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