Republicans Cry Fowl

Republicans are claiming to be 'birds of a feather' that can 'flock together' as a constitutional right based on their beliefs. Accusations that those beliefs are racist or prejudicial makes an illegitimate judgment because no one can see into their souls, only God. Furthermore, any correlation with racial or other identities that adhere to matters of belief is incidental and cultural and nobody's business. 

This, of course, is the old freedom of association argument laundered and dressed up differently to be marketed as a justification for a new age of the exclusion of others from full participation in public life and their formal and informal disenfranchisement. Yet again, Republicans are arguing it's their constitutionally ensured right to think what they want, say what they want and so on. 

They say they can and should be able to decide for themselves what similarly self-determined groups of their fellow citizens they choose to associate with based on beliefs, habits or whims. If they have a religious belief in racial superiority nobody can say it isn't secondary to their insistence on personal standards and cultural correlations. Are Germans, Italians and the English not different? 

Of course, this doesn't take into account the rights of anyone but them and the interference with those prerogatives implied in their scheme. Everyone else can get fucked, and if they're stupid enough to buy into this scam it's their problem. Because it's not about individual freedom within an unbiased system. It's about power and privilege. They want the system on their side. To our detriment and exclusion.