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PSEUDO CONSERVATIVES

Rip Parker
5 min readJun 28, 2022

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PSEUDO-CONS ARE DANGEROUS RADICALS

INCLUDING SIX OF OUR NINE SCOTUS MEMBERS

I find politics and political commentary distasteful and seek to avoid it. Now is a time when conscience demands I overcome my personal preferences. The urgency I now feel was prompted by the legal crisis promulgated by the pseudo-con capture of the Supreme Court of the US, as so frighteningly demonstrated in their destruction of the fundamental legal principal of Stare Decisis in the “Roe vs. Wade” ruling.

This shocking result completely destabilizes Federal Law in preperation for unforseeable revisions and denial of rights established by prior law previously protected by the long held legal principal of precedent. As a lawyer licensed for 59 years, I feel like an ax has been taken to my profession.

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Those members of the former Republican Party, the dead GOP, who proudly and wrongly call themselves “conservatives” are lying to themselves and to us. True conservatives seek to keep things predictably pretty much as they are, focused on running government in as reasonably businesslike manner as possible, and keeping a strong national defense while liberals want to change things to their personal benefit, gaining the financial security held by conservatives, and distributing it to those unable to care for themselves.

For abbreviation, I call them “pseudo-cons”. They are the most radical of all radicals, seeking to change everything about our nation and our personal…

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Rip Parker
Rip Parker

Written by Rip Parker

Geophysicist, lawyer, mediator, student of Jung, phenomenology, semiotics

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