Thank you for illuminating this tactic. I must admit I have fallen for it. In a very important way this is a measure of our faith in our institutions. We have a SCOTUS Justice who can't define what is a woman. Obviously, such a person is under the sway of a very harmful ideology and is prime facie unable to deal logically with empirical reality. Perhaps she mistakes legal precedence and philosophical arguments for the real world? In related matters the CIA, FBI, CDC, NIH and USAID have also proven to be utterly without honor and are nothing more than political hacks under the influence of powerful external forces. In short, we are coming to realize that our institutions have massively failed over the past three decades. Faith is hard to come by.
The answer to this situation is to take some comfort in the history of our Republic. The year 1856 was a bleak one, few could imagine that a lawyer from the frontier who dabbled in land speculation based on railroad developments would step forward and prove to be a man of great skill and courage. Reagan was also a man of the hour. Neither were perfect, but they grasped what needed to be done. Even FDR was able to cast aside his lust for centralized power and enlist American industrialists to manage his war machine. Our system of decentralized government has been severely damaged by the administrative state and the debasement of the legislative branch. But the framework is still there, and that is more than enough when properly understood.
Thank you for illuminating this tactic. I must admit I have fallen for it. In a very important way this is a measure of our faith in our institutions. We have a SCOTUS Justice who can't define what is a woman. Obviously, such a person is under the sway of a very harmful ideology and is prime facie unable to deal logically with empirical reality. Perhaps she mistakes legal precedence and philosophical arguments for the real world? In related matters the CIA, FBI, CDC, NIH and USAID have also proven to be utterly without honor and are nothing more than political hacks under the influence of powerful external forces. In short, we are coming to realize that our institutions have massively failed over the past three decades. Faith is hard to come by.
The answer to this situation is to take some comfort in the history of our Republic. The year 1856 was a bleak one, few could imagine that a lawyer from the frontier who dabbled in land speculation based on railroad developments would step forward and prove to be a man of great skill and courage. Reagan was also a man of the hour. Neither were perfect, but they grasped what needed to be done. Even FDR was able to cast aside his lust for centralized power and enlist American industrialists to manage his war machine. Our system of decentralized government has been severely damaged by the administrative state and the debasement of the legislative branch. But the framework is still there, and that is more than enough when properly understood.