[Happy2BMe]

The U.S.S.C. Oligarchy may have just cut off it's entire leg.

[poobear]

Powerful! Thanks for posting.

[Happy2BMe]

[thoughtomator]

Forgive me for using such an overused term, but doesn't "authoritarian free enterprise" mean the same thing as "corporatist fascism"?

[Cicero]

Free enterprise has nothing to do with it. Sure, there are corrupt businessmen ready to profit, but few people would venture to claim that Stevens, Souter, Ginsberg, Breyer, and Kennedy are spokesmen for free enterprise.

It's an alliance of corrupt politicians and corrupt businessmen. It's more in the line of Stalin or Hitler than Adam Smith.

[Blood of Tyrants]

It is my hope that this ruling will FINALLY cause the Democratic moderates and conservatives to wake up to the tyranny of the men and women in black.

[longtermmemmory]

Lawyers see this AS THE HARD TIME discussed in the article!! This is an elites for elietes decision.


The time the public would accept this the author suggests is ALREADY HERE in the eyes of the left wingers who dominate the legal profession.


I just came from a Bar Conference and the vast majority of laywers and lawyers who are judges are very very very ANGRY that republicans are in charge.

[firewalk]

bttt

[Dat Mon]

Great article and post!

This decision is a watershed in American politics. It is one of those defining moments whereby people reveal their true allegiances and motivations....the masks (and gloves) will come off.

IMO, it falls into a special class of political issues which are coming to the forefront of awareness. Illegal immigration is such an issue, as is Christian religious expression. They are unique in that they cut across traditional political lines. Many folks over at DU were just as upset at this ruling as we were.

I don't have general catchall names to describe these new categories. On one side...you have a populist, traditional, individual oriented American culture...on the other a corporatist, elitist, progressive culture...but its a bit more complicated than that in my view.

It is both a cultural as well as a psychological distinction.

[Gritty]

Main Entry: fas·cism
Pronunciation: 'fa-"shi-z&m also 'fa-"si-
Function: noun
Etymology: Italian fascismo, from fascio bundle, fasces, group, from Latin fascis bundle & fasces fasces
1 often capitalized : a political philosophy, movement, or regime (as that of the Fascisti) that exalts nation and often race above the individual and that stands for a centralized autocratic government headed by a dictatorial leader, severe economic and social regimentation, and forcible suppression of opposition
2 : a tendency toward or actual exercise of strong autocratic or dictatorial control

[expatpat]

Socialism allied with Big Business. Isn't that the definition of Fascism, per Mussolini, who invented it?

[inquest]

FORGET ABOUT THE SUPREME COURT ALREADY! They weren't being "oligarchical" by upholding a law that elected representatives enacted.

The blame for these laws lies with the politicians themselves. WE elected them, we can unelect them. If even a quarter of the anger that's been uselessly directed at the courts had instead been directed at the politicians, there would be heads rolling in city and town halls all across the country. But instead, everyone wastes their energy on SCOTUS, the branch of government that we have precisely the least influence on, and which didn't initiate the problem here. In the meantime, the slimy politicians get let off the hook. Can anyone give a rational reason for this?

[TheGrimReaper]

Suggested future SCOTUS nominee guidelines:

NO more Souters
NO more Kennedys
and for God's sake, NO MORE GINSBURGS! (ACLU spawn)

[dangus]

Free Enterprise? Since when are government siezures free enterprise? I'm getting sick of "moderates" confusing free enterprise and fascism. Free enterprise means people have the right to conduct business as they see fit, without government interference. In free enterprise, government serves merely to preserve the freedom by preventing lawlessness, invasion, and the restriction of markets. New London represents fascism here, the ability of the government to co-erce its subjects into business dealings they do not wish to engage in.

[Travis McGee]

If this continues, the Rule of Five may finally meet Rule 308.