Wow. Who knew such recent history could tell us so much about the present attitude of anti-democracy thinkers? American democracy is not perfect by any means, but the dream still lives. Hope is still strong. Action at the polls will matter. I’m sticking with democracy.
Gorgeously constructed, and intellectually elegant, as always, Harry.
A couple of points. The least is in your "Schmitt's'political 'theology'" paragraph. If I understood you correctly, you meant led instead of lead.
Second, Peter Thiel thinks civilization should be saved from technology?
But finally, and perhaps most important, your title for this post was "Brett wanted a do-over." If I understood you correctly, your thesis is that Kavanaugh thinks the Supreme Court was wrong, and should reconsider its vote. The one that opposed blind right wing destructiveness and the themes you develop in this post. But to the extent that Kavanaugh thinks his usual clan/Klan failed to get it this time, what he's saying to them, by wanting, as you construct it, a do-over, is that they're morons who have no idea what any of this is about or what they're doing. Does he just think they guessed right all the other times, or that they were appropriately susceptible to his manipulating? He takes an exquisitely dim view of them, and of all of us. It doesn't bother him at all that he literally gets away with crimes, because during the clown's first term (clown 1.0), the FBI didn't trouble to investigate him properly. He sees no problem in sitting in on cases after he's already publicly complained about "liberals and Clintons." As if there remained the remotest chance he could evaluate a case in an unbiased way. Brett needs to get himself an island, as Epstein did, and go live by himself. He's unfit to have to deal with other people.
Wow. Who knew such recent history could tell us so much about the present attitude of anti-democracy thinkers? American democracy is not perfect by any means, but the dream still lives. Hope is still strong. Action at the polls will matter. I’m sticking with democracy.
And so am I, Anne
Gorgeously constructed, and intellectually elegant, as always, Harry.
A couple of points. The least is in your "Schmitt's'political 'theology'" paragraph. If I understood you correctly, you meant led instead of lead.
Second, Peter Thiel thinks civilization should be saved from technology?
But finally, and perhaps most important, your title for this post was "Brett wanted a do-over." If I understood you correctly, your thesis is that Kavanaugh thinks the Supreme Court was wrong, and should reconsider its vote. The one that opposed blind right wing destructiveness and the themes you develop in this post. But to the extent that Kavanaugh thinks his usual clan/Klan failed to get it this time, what he's saying to them, by wanting, as you construct it, a do-over, is that they're morons who have no idea what any of this is about or what they're doing. Does he just think they guessed right all the other times, or that they were appropriately susceptible to his manipulating? He takes an exquisitely dim view of them, and of all of us. It doesn't bother him at all that he literally gets away with crimes, because during the clown's first term (clown 1.0), the FBI didn't trouble to investigate him properly. He sees no problem in sitting in on cases after he's already publicly complained about "liberals and Clintons." As if there remained the remotest chance he could evaluate a case in an unbiased way. Brett needs to get himself an island, as Epstein did, and go live by himself. He's unfit to have to deal with other people.