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By a continuing process of inflation, government can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens -- John Maynard Keynes

In the coming political battle between Democrats and Republicans in Connecticut, Democrats will be laying stress on abortion rights, while Republicans will be pointing to the ravages inflation has imposed on the voting public in Connecticut.

The political posture of Connecticut Democrats on abortion rights may be described, ironically, as brazenly libertarian. Broadly speaking, libertarians favor minimal governmental intervention, especially when the intervention aborts the liberties of the person. Broadly speaking, neo-progressives in Connecticut favor the intervention of government in the ordinary lives of citizens, especially when liberties contravene the public good as understood by neo-progressives.

It is extremely unusual to find neo-progressives anywhere arguing that the purchase of a gas oven should be a matter decided between a purchaser and a supplier, as they often argue that abortion should be a matter decided between a doctor and her patient, even when the prevailing neo-progressive position on abortion consists in treating the fetus involved as if it were little more than chopped liver.

U.S. Senator Dick Blumenthal, for instance, is an extreme libertarian on the matter of abortion. He cannot regard the fetus as potential human life whose right to life should be considered sacrosanct by politicians Blumenthal’s whose election campaigns are heavily financed by mega abortion providers such as Planned Parenthood. To allow the fetus any right not enjoyed by, for example, a woman’s liver would violate a woman’s right to abortion at any stage of her pregnancy. To put the matter in vulgar terms, Blumenthal’s position on abortion is that the fetus ought to be considered chopped liver for purposes of abortion, rather than potential human life, much in the way that an acorn is not, at its earliest stage of growth, a mighty oak tree.

The Democrat dominated state of Connecticut in 1990 passed a statute that codified Roe v Wade into Connecticut law. Since then, a pro-abortion neo-progressive legislature has considerably expanded abortion rights, according to a 2022 Associated Press report.

In 2022 the U. S. Supreme Court revisited Roe v Wade and declared its prior ruling in error. Even liberal icon of the court Ruth Bader Ginsberg argued that Roe v Wade initially had been poorly argued by the court.  The court had ruled  51 years earlier that abortion extended to all citizens of the United States a constitutional right to abortion and – most importantly -- that state legislators therefore could no longer write laws regulating abortion.

The high court in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization reversed Roe v Wade and declared 1) the Constitution of the United States does not confer a right to abortion , and 2) the high court returned to individual state legislatures the power to regulate any aspect of abortion not protected by federal statutory law.

The political question that should be foremost on minds during the upcoming 2024 elections is this: Does Dobbs v. Jackson strengthen or weaken Connecticut’s 1990 law incorporating Roe v Wade into Connecticut statutes?

The answer to that question is:  Dobbs v. Jackson strengthens Connecticut’s statutory law because the court has now transferred the authority to decide abortion issues from courts to state legislatures, and it is highly unlikely that appellate courts, including the high court, would reverse its recent decision that affirms the right of state legislatures to regulate any aspect of abortion not protected by federal statutory law.

Inflation is, of course, a horse of a different color.

We know that inflation -- a tax hideous because it is hidden in dollar devaluation – occurs when too many dollars are chasing too few goods, the classic definition of inflation. The inflation tax is politically caused when artful politicians increase borrowing and the printing of money to cover expenses in order to escape spending cuts or tax increases.

Here in Connecticut, the prevailing Democrat majority party, heavily influenced by neo-progressive ideologues, has yet to acknowledge the demonstrable connection between excessive spending, crushing debt and inflation. Any attempt to cut spending over the long term has been manfully resisted by those whose campaign financing depends upon state employee union greed. Connecticut state employee unions and Democrats have been scratching each other’s backs for decades.

Some of this may be changing on the national level.  Most polls indicate that divide and conquer Democrats have of late been less successful in pulling into their orbit conventional Democrat voters such as Blacks, young voters, and women who have discovered that third wave feminism is overtly subversive and unfriendly to first wave feminists.

Democrats on the U.S. Congressional Delegation running for reelection in 2024 may be dismayed to learn that both surgical abortions and abortifacients are readily available in Connecticut. Indeed, in addition to being a sanctuary city state, a state that is nearly number one in high taxes, a casino state, a marijuana state, and a state with an extremely high per capita debt, Connecticut is a state of no return for expats who have found greener pastures elsewhere.

Unlike abortion, inflation, no respecter of persons, affects everyone living in Connecticut, including poorly educated inner city children who, if they are successful in securing gainful employment, will be forced to tote the burden of future deficits, tax freight carryovers from high stepping, high spending, neo-progressive legislators who have never met a spending proposal they did not lovingly embrace.

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