Welcome To The New Gilded Age

[finnbow]

Originally Posted by Boreas

The problem is that we have 9 unelected "lords" sitting on the Supreme Court. They have the power to revise, repeal or make law as they, and they alone, see fit. These powers aren't granted to them in the Constitution. They're ones that they arrogated to themselves in Marbury v. Madison. They are totally unaccountable. They serve for life unless impeached, a thing we have never tried in the entire history of this misbegotten country. Do you really think they would give a shit if we took to the streets? I don't.

John

While true, I still trust the robed cabal more than I do the Executive or Legislative branch.

[Tom Joad]

Originally Posted by Boreas

Do you really think they would give a shit if we took to the streets?

Maybe if they thought they might end up out in the street themselves, hanging upside down A-La-Mussolini, they would.

[Boreas]

Originally Posted by Tom Joad

Maybe if they thought they might end up out in the street themselves, hanging upside down A-La-Mussolini, they would.

That kind of action would require the participation of thousands of people who were all willing to die..... because they would.

John

[Boreas]

Originally Posted by finnbow

While true, I still trust the robed cabal more than I do the Executive or Legislative branch.

Collectively, I trust none of them but at least with the other two branches of government at least we have some chance of voting out the worst and electing someone better. With the Judicial Branch, we're stuck with the Scalias and the Robertses and Tbomases until they retire or croak.

John

[icenine]

hurray somebody saved my thread after Whelly stole it

[icenine]

oh that was the immigration thread about Obama and his real record...to quote Gilda Radner NEVERMIIIINNNNNNNNNNNNNNDDDDDDDDDDDD!

[merrylander]

Originally Posted by Boreas

The problem is that we have 9 unelected "lords" sitting on the Supreme Court. They have the power to revise, repeal or make law as they, and they alone, see fit. These powers aren't granted to them in the Constitution. They're ones that they arrogated to themselves in Marbury v. Madison. They are totally unaccountable. They serve for life unless impeached, a thing we have never tried in the entire history of this misbegotten country. Do you really think they would give a shit if we took to the streets? I don't.

John

It does not even take nine of them just the five right wing assholes. Imagine a nation of over 300 million being led around by the nose by five crooks

Isn't it rich?
Are we a pair?
Me here at last on the ground,
you in mid air
Send in the clowns
Don't bother they're here.

[Boreas]

Originally Posted by merrylander

It does not even take nine of them just the five right wing assholes. Imagine a nation of over 300 million being led around by the nose by five crooks

I'm slowly coming to the conclusion that large, populous nations are ungovernable. The problem is that a world consisting of hundreds or thousands of small well-administered countries would need to form alliances, entities like the EU or the UN and these entities seem ineffectual at best and counter-productive at worst.

[merrylander]

Originally Posted by Boreas

I'm slowly coming to the conclusion that large, populous nations are ungovernable. The problem is that a world consisting of hundreds or thousands of small well-administered countries would need to form alliances, entities like the EU or the UN and these entities seem ineffectual at best and counter-productive at worst.

In other words Lincoln made a big mistake and Polk was a thief. The south would be on its own and Mexico would still have had enough arable land to make it richer.

And maybe the U.S. would be governable.

[donquixote99]

Is it too late to give Texas back to Mexico?