Plato is dead

holding back the tide

Yglesias:

• Tactically, a shift in focus away from abortion and toward marriage equality actually strikes me as pretty misguided. You really could imagine the Supreme Court substantially narrowing the constitutional protections of Roe and Casey over the next couple of years or even overturning it on a medium-range time-frame. And if constitutional jurisprudence changes, many states will adopt more restrictive abortion laws. But no amount of screwing around with the Supreme Court is going to halt the turn toward gay and lesbian equality.

• Politicians who devote a lot of time and energy in 2009 to holding back the tide are just going to look more monstrous in retrospect than their colleagues who found other things to be busybodies about. Does anyone think that in 2039 anyone’s going to be proudly and publicly talking about how “I got my start working for Senator so-and-so trying to stop loving couples from getting married?”

Maybe some people just enjoy consistently being on the wrong side of history…