BUT:
Mr. Baker makes the case that 2022 America is better than
most other countries. Most people on the
Right will agree. After all, people are
pouring into this country from other countries, not the other way around. Of course, we’re also much richer, which
attracts a lot of people looking for a better life.
But that’s not really the issue. Conservative are concerned about what kind of
a country they will inhabit in 5 or 10 years.
If the laws are justly enforced in most of middle America, but are not
justly enforced at the highest levels, there will soon be no justice at any
level.
To take just one example, the FBI just sent a heavily armed
troop of FBI agents pointing rifles and wearing g body armor to arrest a father
of 12 who protested outside an abortion
clinic, singing hymns and reading he Bible a year ago. He
stands accused of a crime that could send him to prison for 11 years. In the meantime, over 20 crisis pregnancy
centers and churches have been fire-bombed or vandalized since Roe vs. Wade was
overturned. The same Justice Department
that pointed rifles at the pastor and his children have ignored the violence against
people who oppose abortion.
When the police powers of the state turn a blind eye to the crimes
of those who support the state but come crashing down on those who peacefully
protest the state, we are rapidly becoming the kind of authoritarian state that
Baker denounces. At that point, we’re not
better, just richer.
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