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To: Sirius Lee
-- The question now is, can we take it back and re-establish it? --

Or "what would it take?"

The institutions are rotten, the people are ignorant (bless our hearts, I don't mean that in a disparaging way), risk aversion prevails over liberty, and not a majority holds to foundational moral absolute principles.

Any reversal will emphatically not come from the top down, will not come from voting in "conservatives" or "constitutionalists." The rot is bureaucratic and the elected pols won't remove any bureaucracy. The courts serve their master, the government.

Don't blame the press - the press was known to be liars before 1920. It's the gullible people who fell of Walter Lipmann's myth that the press has a duty to, and is skilled at objective reporting. The function of the press is to advocate, and that is an adversarial system - just like courts are adversarial. Two parties come to the bench, each tells half truths, and the judge picks a winner. Same with the press except the readers pick what they will believe.

Courage and resistance are contagious.

9 posted on 05/01/2021 4:49:19 AM PDT by Cboldt
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To: Cboldt
The courts serve their master, the government.

What do you expect fro the SCOTUS CCW case?

38 posted on 05/01/2021 1:37:21 PM PDT by MileHi ((Liberalism is an ideology of parasites, hypocrites, grievance mongers, victims, and control freaks.)
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