Republicans pretend to loathe judicial overreach. They rail against activist judges who "make law" and pound their chests about original intent, but the truth is that since the 2000 Bush v Gore decision, there has been an ever accelerating wave of radical judicial activism from the right. Conservative judicial decisions have overturned two hundred years of rules designed to prevent just what we're now seeing, ownership of both the media and political system by a very wealthy few.
The greatest pretense in American politics is this: that our politicians can be utterly dependent on money given to them by contributors, but not be influenced by the source of those funds. It's not true. It's never been true. Now that the judicial takeover of our electoral system is complete, there's not even any reason to hide it. This is a bribe-based system — an oligarchy all the way to the core. Getting it back isn't going to be easy, and probably can't be done with dollars. It's going to take something far more dear.
I hate to say it this way but it's liable to take more Blut und Eisen than polite discourse.
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... it's liable to take more Blut und Eisen than polite discourse.
Yeah, it's far beyond discourse. Just waiting for the word.
Hello Gordon,
Sort of like what the troops called General Patton. "Old Blood and Guts". Our blood and his guts!
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