[Excellence]

Did you write that? It’s very good. Kind of depressing. But good.

[zeugma]

Well done. I need to read through Machiavelli again. There is a great deal of wisdom in his writings.

[Albion Wilde]

Machiavelli asserts, then later explains, why institutions and laws established in a republic at the time of its birth, when men were good, are no longer suitable later, once men have become evil. Even the occasional wise new law is rendered insufficient to deal with emerging evil, because the institutions in place corrupt the law.

We saw this in 1992 when Reagan-appointed SCOTUS Justice Sandra Day O'Connor argued in Planned Parenthood v. Casey, the most viable countersuit to Roe v. Wade ever mounted, that available abortion had become an expectation of American women — a mere 19 years after Roe was passed. To her, it was already "settled law", in spite of the typically glacial pace of government and amid the continual, relentless resitance to the legalization of abortion on First Amendment grounds and to the legitimacy of the Roe jurisprudence itself on Federalism grounds.

Because she was the first woman appointed to the Supreme Court, her opinion in shooting down that legal challenge to Roe was often lauded as the decisive opinion, bearing out the politicized nature of support for the defeat of Casey — rather like criticizing the decisions of our first black president, regardless of content of the decisions.

Roe was just one aspect of the overwhelming assault against Christian culture waged through increasingly corrupted adminstrations and Courts since the 1950s, leading inevitably to our present quasi-communist administration.