[F.J. Mitchell]

Well let's consider how a Democracy (Representative Republic, in our case)turns itself into a Dictatorship?

The Senate member is elected and can either be voted out, recalled or impeached-The House member is elected and can be voted out, recalled or impeached-the President is elected and can be voted out, recalled or impeached.

The Supreme Court members are not elected,(they are appointed for life) so they cannot be voted out, they cannot be recalled and apparently cannot be impeached, for it has never happened.

Only the Supreme court can turn a Representative Republic into a Dictatorship, but not entirely unassisted, It's dictatorial edicts must be extremely pleasing to one of the major political party's at the time and enabling the agenda it craves but could never attain through the Constitutionally legal legislative proccess.

The US Supreme court has given the liberal Democrats the boost toward the Socialist state it so rabidly craves, and the Democrats are willing to sell their souls to Satan if neccessary, (many obviously already have) to ensure that only activist, socialistic minded Judges are ever confirmed to seats on the higher courts of America.

The transformation from a Republic to a Dictatorship only looks like a bloodless coup, because the blood of 55 million slaughtered Americans happened behind closed doors in abortatoriums across America and was ignored by a MSM that also idolizes dictatorships and finds ecstacy at the thought of innocent blood being spilled, no less than did those ghouls of the final days of decadent and dying Rome.

[af_vet_rr]

Only the Supreme court can turn a Representative Republic into a Dictatorship, but not entirely unassisted, It's dictatorial edicts must be extremely pleasing to one of the major political party's at the time and enabling the agenda it craves but could never attain through the Constitutionally legal legislative proccess.

Congress determines the number of Justices on the SC - in theory, if "Conservatives"* in Congress didn't like the way the SCOTUS was headed, they could change the numbers (it's varied from 6-10 over the history of the SCOTUS). They could reduce the number of Justices by removing seats as Justices retired/died, or they could add seats.

This probably wouldn't go over very well now though - the last time somebody tried to do this, FDR in '36 or '37, it was shot down by the Senate, and the current political environment is much more hostile.

*I use the term "Conservative" loosely when talking about Republicans in Washington - too many seem to become less and less Conservative once they make it to Washington.

[af_vet_rr]

Only the Supreme court can turn a Representative Republic into a Dictatorship,

I forgot to make my point in my last post - I got sidetracked. What I was going to say was, it wouldn't take the SC to turn a Representative Republic into a Dictatorship in America, or at least what we consider to be a traditional Dictatorship - ala Hitler, Stalin, Castro, etc..

In this day and age in America, travel, communication, and banking can easily be controlled by Congress. You control those three things, you don't have to have an old-fashioned Dictatorship, you've effectively created a new kind of Dictatorship, that is just as controlling as the old-fashioned Dictatorships of Stalin, Castro, etc.