It’s pretty clear that the Judicial System is currently the most corrupt government institution in the US. Judges and lawyers have become ideologically aligned with the left and are openly defiant of the Constitution and any laws that get in the way of their political ideology and activism. This isn’t limited to blue states, as every state including Texas is filled with leftist activists who are lawyers, DAs, and judges, etc. The corruption is dire and every facet of the Judicial system has been ideologically captured by the left. They are creating laws out of thin air through rulings in favor of leftist activism and the right just accepts it. I know this isn’t a new phenomenon, but the blatant disregard and arrogance the Judicial Branch displays is worse than ever. The state of Judicial Power makes it seem that the Founding Fathers failed to understand how the Justice System could be so systemically molded into a tool for enforcing authoritarianism. I do wonder if the Founding Fathers intended for the citizenry to be the real check and balance against the Judicial System through either non-compliance or direct resistance to tyranny of the courts?
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I would reckon you have a high linguistic IQ. I would dive into Common Sense. It's not written in today's style of English but it is still modern English. If it bores you (personally I'm not into non-fiction and I have to force it) there are lots of study books on it, but if you choose to learn about it secondhand then you have to pay attention to the disposition/bias/motives of a second layer author/publisher.
That's something about education in general, that second layer of disposition/bias/motive on part of educators (in our country public educators are representatives of the State, another idea the Founding Fathers and maybe even Hamilton would have abhored). The reward for robbing the next generation of the truth is unfathomable control over society. Teachers are not usually bad people but they are caught up between the State's greed and their own C.Y.A. measures. It really pays, as an adult with a passing interest in some aspect of history, to dig into things yourself. It is lucky that this period of American history is within our grasp, only a few hundred years old, and that real pieces of it are still littered around for us to examine in plain, firsthand, in an understandable rendition of our own language.
It’s funny you mention that because I started reading Common Sense last night. Non-fiction is usually a little more challenging to keep your eyes open, but I will be able to make it through. And yes, the style of English takes a little adjustment but overall I enjoy what I’ve read so far about the thought experiment of a small group of men going to unexplored territory and how people get managed as the population scales… I can see the setup for a democratic republic coming. It will probably take me a few nights to get all the way through. Thanks for the recommendation and reminder to read it!
Very nice. It is nod-off material but it is interesting to be immersed in rhetoric that fomented a revolution. Stuff we think of as very basic were very progressive ideas, and the best parts of all those ideas have deteriorated or disappeared. It is really something to peer through history with hindsight.
Hey, in terms of entertainment, if you prefer fiction and you take a liking to older forms of English, I earnestly suggest Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's The White Company and Sir Nigel (1906), which is Dolye 100 years ago feigning speech prose from 100's more years ago, and the Oxford World Classics edition of Le Morte D'Arthur by Sir Thomas Mallory (1470)