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The leaked decision says something to the effect that abortion rights are not part of our traditions. Yet the very notion of personal privacy and autonomy is contained in sentiments like "Don't Tread on Me" and even the notion that a person is safe in their home parallels the idea of privacy as a basic right.

The conservative fight against rights and against the Supreme Court began with their anger over decisions that granted African Americans the rights that they were supposed to have by virtue of the 13th - 15th amendments. Thus from billboards in the South to banners in the National Review the cry was Impeach Earl Warren.

The Conservative movement promises to unravel a host of decisions that empowered persons of all sorts to live as they chose, from inter-racial marriage to sex of all sorts between consenting adults.

Basically Alito and the rest maintain that the USA since 1933 did not happen (or was wrong). So we will go backward.

The heart and soul of conservatism is seeing the results of progress after WW2 - with a multi-racial democracy, and a nation that still attracts the best minds in all the world .... conservatives see this and want to destroy it.

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