Before this millenia I never really thought about the courts and judges as doing things based on political philosophy. Like they were influence by it but not so far as to just ignore presidence and just twist written laws and the constitution.
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I mean it was always thus. Back before it was "political" whether Venezuelans had any right to due process, it was "political" whether black people were people or property, or whether someone who was a socialist was allowed to run for president. It's always been a little bit of a shit-show. We're currently in an unusually shit-show time, but it's not a new problem.
People are just assholes sometimes, which is why there's so much mistrust built into the American system for the ones currently in charge of the operation.
that stuff is pretty far back though. It seemed in a good place before the millenium.
Not that many generations far back. It takes several generations for changes to soak in, and that's before taking into account globalization with conflicting world views.
evolution is (generally but not always) a slow, incremental process and, just spitballin here, nature has made no promise that we are not a dead-end species.
41%? Isn't that the same as the orange cancer's approval number? Kinda makes sense.
41%? That seems high.
Roughly 41% of this country thinks Biden was a pedophile and Trump is just trying to deport illegal aliens, but the gay Democrat mafia congress is trying to force him to keep them back in the country and the Supreme Court is in on it and they abort the babies after they're born, they just put them on the table and ask the mother "well what do you want to do?" Do you think that's okay? I can't believe pronouns men boxing against women and they just beat the shit out of the women Willie Horton Hugo Chavez Dominion Voting they stole the election Hamas price of eggs "I did that!" antisemitism Hilary Clinton you know she killed that guy Alan Foster Michelle Obama is a man I just want to be an American is that so much to ask? Newsmax Tucker Carlson Zelensky got MILLIONS from the Nazis
This makes absolutely no sense, yet somehow more sense than what I hear from my conservative family members when we talk on the phone.
I really tried to capture the unhinged emotional anger that is a key component but I don’t think I managed to do it. The muddled-ness of the jumping between different targets, and the hurt and anger that spurts out randomly from every word, are both a lot more important than any particular narrative element I think.
Maybe it has something to do with all the tacit, if not explicit, endorsement of mass lawlessness of a certain president. Huh.