[TheRealThing]

Wow you are racist.

We don't call African American "darkies".

Talk about you democrats wanting to take us back to the 50's.

I still find it amusing that race comes up in a thread about homosexuals mental illness.
Race has been a go to for dems for too long. Nobody cares anymore.

The idea here presented is that textualism is akin to gradualism in addressing massive injustice.

That's what kills me about the La-La's. Initially, they spouted their blather and conservative folks not wanting to stir an uproar, chose to keep their silence, thinking to themselves, why give any credence to their spew, it will never happen anyway. Mistaking that silence for passivity, La-La's now spout their blather, and they have mistaken the lack of challenge as an indication of the right's inferior intellect.

Therefore liberals nowadays routinely insult the intelligence of those to the right on TV's news shows and other venues. That brings us to the term gradualism. The frog thrown into a pot of boiling water will jump right out, but, if you put that frog in water which is room temperature and slowly bring that pot of water to a boil, the frog will stay in and get boiled. The rationale is, if the right were subjected to too great a change, they would wake up and stop the madness. So, the left is taking baby steps, or so they once were.

Obama came to town and stomped the accelerator and still, it took the best part of eight years for most conservatives to understand that they were in hot water. A dangerous cloud of naïveté and disbelief had set in over the shinning city on the hill at Washington, DC, it's true. If nothing else though, Donald Trump has taught us once more that not only is it ok to challenge enemies foreign and domestic, it is imperative to our survival as a sovereign nation that we do. At any rate, I suppose we're supposed to be so stupid we don't understand that gradualism, or redistribution of wealth, or the repeal of DADT, or destabilizing the Middle East, or the apology tour, or reseeding the USSC 5/4 in favor of Liberal Justicies, or the 10's of millions of Latinos who pour through our purposefully nonexistent border in order to change the demographic of this land, is intended to "fundamentally transform the face of America."

And so we come to the point of all this. Originalism as Scalia knew it, or textualism which like a cheap translation, waters down significantly what Scalia believed, is about all that stands in the way, of massive injustice. Thus, "the people" are speaking out. The wall that Trump would build is the first thing of substance that they have seen. That versus the abstractions, the fuzzy math (20 Trillion dollar debt) and blowing smoke, (Benghazi etc. etc.) of which they have had enough.