The absurdity of everything
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Ketanji Brown Jackson’s Senate confirmation hearings are commencing on the same day we’re waiting to find out if Clarence Thomas gets released from the hospital. DrS in the thread below summed up the ethical situation perfectly in nine words:
This is like the trolley problem on easy mode.
I was going to go off on rant about how absurd it is that we’re currently ruled by a pseudo-super legislature made up of five or six lawyers chosen by the Federalist Society to advance that organization’s radically reactionary anti-democratic agenda, who each have lifetime tenure and can resign from office strategically to undermine what very little democratic control there is over this preposterous institution, but then I thought what’s the point?
The entire constitutional system is at this point — this point being 230-plus years into this little political science experiment — absurd and preposterous.
Who actually believes it’s a good idea to be governed, at most practical structural level, by the political beliefs, and the institutions they set up to advance those beliefs, of a few dozen men from the 18th century? That’s a basically insane proposition, so we create various kludges to get around the consequences of it, the most significant being our nutty system of judicial review, which turns the SCOTUS into the above-mentioned pseudo-legislature, which in turn means the Federalist Society gets to run the entire society.
As to what to do about this your suggestions are welcome.