GhostOnTheHalfShell, 2 months ago

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karlauerbach, 2 months ago

@GhostOnTheHalfShell Uh oh, has one asked the Federalist Society the source for the chicken they are frying - could, perhaps, it be us?

courtcan, 2 months ago

@GhostOnTheHalfShell @karlauerbach "The purpose of a system is what it does. This is a basic dictum. It stands for bald fact, which makes a better starting point in seeking understanding than the familiar attributions of good intention, prejudices about expectations, moral judgment, or sheer ignorance of circumstances."

--Stafford Beer

We don't need to restructure the system, because what it's doing is what it was designed for. We need to raze it to the ground and design better.

#POSIWID

davecb, 2 months ago

@courtcan @GhostOnTheHalfShell @karlauerbach

It's trying to deal with factions, which the derogatory name that the US founders called parties, and hoped to avoid.

What it is doing is broken, and need to be fixed. Just like Canada expected parties, but did not expect extremists who wanted to do a hostile takeover of parties and thereby become government.

I'm talking about you, "Reform". I'm talking about you "MAGA".

karlauerbach, 2 months ago

@davecb @courtcan @GhostOnTheHalfShell Yes, our constitutional authors were in great fear of the excesses they saw in the French revolution.

But factions we have. But capture of courts is somewhat new.