Right-winger touts "duty to enforce social order"

The conservative movement has once again let the mask slip regarding its true agenda.

They make much din about being for "less government" and "less regulation" and all. But a new article by some nobody named Mary Grabar shows that in conservaworld, this principle only applies to Big Business - not people.

Regarding the drug war death of a Florida man, Grabar absurdly claims that it shows why we need more senseless controls on personal conduct - not fewer. Grabar blasts libertarians for their failure to chisel away at individual rights.

This story also shows that our blog isn't diametrically opposed to libertarianism. Far from it, in fact. For years, I've opposed the failed War on Drugs and government-imposed video game rating systems, for instance.

Mary Grabar complains, "In abandoning the duty to enforce social order, today's libertarians have made a devil's pact with the pro-drug forces of George Soros and company."

You're hilarious, Mary, you know that?

That quote isn't funny just because Grabar accuses Soros of being pro-drug. It's also uproariously telling of conservatives' real goals. "Duty to enforce social order"??? WTF?????

Conservatives don't support regulation of big banks or insurance corporations, but they support "enforcing social order"?

Since you read this blog (as all cool people do), you knew that already. What's stunning is that Grabar comes right out and says it in plain sight.

I have no idea what could possibly endear anyone to this set of views. How could someone support more rigid control of personal conduct while not supporting more regulation of Big Business? Yet that's the essence of far-right conservatism.

Grabar sides with right-wing former Oklahoma congressman Ernest Istook, who now works for the extremist Heritage Foundation. A Florida radio station invited Mistook to appear on a talk show to tout his support for expanding the drug war.

It gets crazier.

Grabar sniffs that marijuana should be outlawed primarily because it is countercultural. She whines, "Every toke symbolizes a thumb in the eye of Western values. So it follows that in order to maintain our culture, we need to criminalize this drug." She goes on to say that legalization would promote (among other things) "Gaia worship."

Modern American conservatism = control. This proves it.