What you call esoterica, is how the law works. It's based on definitions - very, very careful definitions. And that's not a bad thing in itself. It's just often misused.
A free people, by definition, have an almost unlimited right to free contract. The right to make contracts with each other is, in a very fundamental sense, freedom itself. Therefore understanding the law regrading contracts, to a certain extent, is a responsibility of every adult.
The abuse of that contractual process, that contractual law, by presuming contracts on people and then acting as if they accept them if they don't recognize the presumption, is the problem. But what do you suggest is the solution, other than people educating themselves? Fraud will always exist, coercion will always exist. Contract law goes back over a thousand years and it is tested against every possible stress. What would you replace it with?
People argue, people cheat, people lie. There has to be a way to tie them down to specifics. That's what contract law does. If people don't learn at least the basics of it, who's fault is it when they are fooled and cheated?
Let me tell you something, my FRiend. There is a very, very good reason that the Left is made up of lawyers. Because this is how they fool people, by writing laws that they know people won't bother reading or understanding.
If people rolled up their sleaves and took a few basic law classess, and spent even a tenth of the amount of time they do prepping or at gun ranges, there would be no need to prep, and the need for guns would drop to a fraction of what they are now. We Americans have inherited an incredibly precious legal system. It is the work of genius, that many have died to protect. Not to learn it, not to study and understand it, is a betrayal of our heritage.
And it is the main weakness that those who want to get rid of the freedoms that we have inherited, are exploiting so successfully.
People have to fight the problem where it actually is - not where they want it to be.
Clarification: I meant that "not to learn it, not to study and understand it" is the main weakness that those who want to get rid of the freedoms that we have inherited, are exploiting so successfully.
Vast number of examples of the “contracts” with the People, from the Left and the Right— which have been repeatedly broken.
This law as written is to be ignored, and hell to pay. There was nothing for example at all “legal” about the American Revolution— rule of law being the first thing to go. Understand your passion for the order of things— but we have gone well past the “i’m gonna sue” to stop this. Which was the point.
The tipping point is being reached. Let’s hope the power vacuum is not filled by totalitarians of either “Party”, but by Constitutionalists who can quickly reverse many things.