Andrew Coyne, Progressive Policy and Golden Dawn

The reason the Republican position on gay marriage, for example, finds fewer takers may simply be on the evidence: more and more states have legalized it, and neither marriage nor the world has ended. Before gay marriage was a reality, it was possible to conjure all manner of terrible harms that would follow. Now that it is here, the conservative critique is collapsing.

 

 

There is zero evidence that progressive policies like ending slavery, emancipation, civil rights or gay marriage result in the end of civilization (and watch this clip to the end). 

 

However, there is lots of evidence that the hateful oppression of minorities, however you want to justify it, does end civilization - unless you consider things like Concentration Camps and ethnic violence civilized.  What leads to this kind of oppression gaining strength?  Corruption and disproportionate resource access at the top. 

 

It's something to think about.