Posted by
The Proud Liberal on Monday, December 03, 2007 12:24:24 PM
Certainly not in the way that conservatives endlessly repeat this homily. Laws are made by men. We make some good laws and we make some bad laws. But always laws are made in a political context and the people with the gold - you remember the Golden Rule, "those with the gold, rule" - those with the gold pour money into the political process to get laws passed which are in their interest.
Conservatives use the homily "we are a nation of laws" as if our laws are transcendentally derived from God. Not so. They're derived from a usually corrupt political process.
I offer this in the spirit of "speaking truth to conservatives."