To the extent the so-called right has an identifiable political philosophy, like the left’s, it is not based on the protection of individual rights. From Chuck Baldwin at lewrockwell.com:
I’ve said it many times, and I’ll say it again: The Right can be just as dangerous to Liberty as the Left. Much of the unconstitutional/Orwellian/socialist/authoritarian laws and policies emanating from Washington, D.C., were put in place by the Right.
The Gun Control Act of 1968, which is the granddaddy of all the nefarious gun control laws and policies under which the American people are now subjected, was supported by the largest so-called pro-Second Amendment organization in the U.S., the National Rifle Association (NRA). The NRA even helped to draft that monstrosity. The Act of 1968 was preceded by the National Firearms Act of 1934, which the NRA also supported. Furthermore, the NRA supported most every federal gun control law on the books since 1968.
When it comes to the life issue, the National Right to Life, Focus on the Family and similar “pro-life” groups have consistently been the chief obstacle to the passage of Personhood bills and amendments across the country, which would legally define life as beginning at conception, including Dr. Ron Paul’s Sanctity of Life Act that he repeatedly tried to pass while he was in Congress.
