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Wisconsin Supreme Court candidate wants to erase an entire century of social progress [1]
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Date: 2023-03-08
If he makes it onto the court, Democratic Gov. Tony Evers and Attorney General Josh Kaul’s challenge to the state’s 174-year old abortion ban will fail. That ancient law, which outlaws the procedure even in cases of rape or incest, will take effect. If the U.S. Supreme Court decides to overturn marriage equality—and you know that’s on their wish list—the Wisconsin Supreme Court would be right behind them.
That’s just the beginning of Kelly’s war on the 20th century, however. He condemns every bit of social progress the country has made, including Social Security. It’s another form of welfare, he wrote way back when, and further indication that the country is “sliding into socialism.” And it’s all the government’s fault for “stealing” from real Americans to give money to people who are “allergic to the idea that there is a necessary connection between work and what it produces” and who “don’t create enough to sustain themselves during their working years.” That’s why he also condemns people getting Social Security and Medicare who “have chosen to retire without sufficient assets to support themselves.”
“Welfare recipients do not receive their checks as manna from heaven,” Kelly wrote. “Someone created that wealth and then the government forcibly took it.” These programs force the people paying taxes to be victims of “involuntary servitude.”
Do you want to know his idea of slavery? No, you don’t, but here you go anyway. From a chapter he wrote for a 2014 book on American philosopher John Rawls, regarding affirmative action: “Affirmative action and slavery differ, obviously, in significant ways. … But it’s more a question of degree than principle, for they both spring from the same taproot,” Kelly wrote. “Neither can exist without the foundational principle that it is acceptable to force someone into an unwanted economic relationship. Morally, and as a matter of law, they are the same.”
Just the same.
This man is dangerous. A Wisconsin Supreme Court with him in the majority wouldn’t just rocket Wisconsin back to the political dark ages, it could put the Republicans in this critical swing state in a position to install Donald Trump as president in 2024.
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