Zman proposes that Kavanaugh is NOT the problem. Not even close to being the problem.
...a people with a capable ruling elite can get along and be happy with
just about any form of political system. A people who need the restraint
of democracy or a strong constitution to tame their ruling classes is a
people with a ruling class incapable of operation a constitutional
government and abiding by its limits....
...the main stage is populated with geezers
produced by the ruling class of a half century ago. Diane Feinstein is
the representative of the generation that produced the cultural
revolution of the 1960’s, not someone from the current age. In other
words, the American ruling class started going sour a long time ago.
We’re just getting to smell the rotting corpse of it....
(Note that there are parallels to the Catholic Church here, too. Ugh.)
...watching the Kavanaugh circus should be a reminder that America is
one serious crisis away from collapse. The financial crisis of 2008 was
so terrifying to the elites, because they sense the fragility of their
position...
....It’s clear that the political elite of America is incapable of
handling a genuine crisis. They struggle to do the basics of government
now. They still have not written and passed a budget for next fiscal
year. This is ground floor stuff. If they cannot handle the simplest of
tasks, how will the “world’s greatest deliberative body” manage to
debate a response to a genuine crisis? The answer, of course, is they
won’t because they can’t. Instead, they will look around for the strong
man to arrive and take over the task from them....
Ain't that a reassuring thought?
...That’s what we are seeing with the Kavanaugh hearings. Serious men would
never have allowed a handful of deranged matrons, suffering from the
typical middle aged female hysteria, to disrupt this process. Generation
after generation since Gettysburg, the political elite has grown weaker
as the quality of the ruling elite has declined. Maybe the system is to
blame. Maybe the breeding patterns of the elites are to blame. Maybe it
is just an example of reversion to the mean. Either way, our elites are
no longer elite.
They're certainly NOT able to think in terms of "the National Interest", much less in such esoteric terms as "right order." The gravestone for "right order" in the US is Roe v. Wade.
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