One of my pet peeves in politics has to do with the current state of our political language, which has deteriorated in recent decades to say the least. One particular saying that is perhaps one of the worst ones is this common refrain that is used by people on both the Left and Right: "We are on the right side of history." But History doesn't determine right and wrong, good or bad. It looked very a long time that chattel slavery was on the right side of history, at least until the Civil War. In Cuba since 1958, it looked as though Fidel Castro has been on the right side of history. Anyway, I am sure you get my point.
Reason rooted in nature and nature's God is the only way in which we can the rightness or justness of anything in this world. Combining the is and the ought together obscures the way things are with the way things should be. The Founders certainly did not think in these terms when they wrote the Declaration of Independence and especially neither should conservatives who today seek to conserve those principles.
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