OK. So then you agree that perhaps overturning Roe is the best thing to happen right now.
It gives people an indication of where the right will take us. Things like work for hire,
Citizens United, rollbacks of voting rights, immigrant othering, etc. are too abstract.
The abortion restrictions in the red states will give us more leverage in those states.
If places like TX and FL don't turn purple again, though, all it's doing is damage.
Engaging with "first principles" in those states *is* helping people see what
they have in mind.
On 5/20/22 07:30, Marcus Daniels wrote:
I think people need to see what the right has in mind.
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But what's the best way to a democratic majority that's *represented* in the
actual cumulative structure that results in nation-wide rights? The only way I
can see to do that is with a large value system. In the face of deep threats,
the lefties need to stop berating Blue Dogs and pretending there's no shared
value system.
That shared value system operates a lot like first principles.
On 5/20/22 07:17, Marcus Daniels wrote:
As you admit there are no first principles to consider, so there is nothing to
put back together. The other side is fully saturated by prevaricators who
can't be trusted to debate in a reasonable way. Polling indicates the
preference is on the side of the left. This consensus needs to be converted,
in the fullness of time, into a usable democratic majority.
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Yeah, I get that. But there's an inertia to consider. If we manage to put the
Right back into place tenuously, without convincing enough of the other side to
relax or compromise, then they'll dig in even more. The tenuous installation
feeds into their rhetoric. We need at least a semblance of cooperative
consensus.
The Federalist Society (and orgs like The Fellowship
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fellowship_%28Christian_organization%29>)
are not going to simply give up and go home. They've worked for decades to overturn
Roe and other tenuously established values could soon topple, as well.
There seems to be 2 options: 1) engage with their good arguments and shelve
their bad arguments, cafeteria style, or 2) come up with our own Illuminati
style insidious strategy. (2) requires discipline lefties just don't have, in
part because we criticize ourselves. (1) is the practical path.
On 5/19/22 12:14, Marcus Daniels wrote:
This why I won’t be “pretending” to consider the other side of this issue. It
could cause harm for the sake of stupid people.
On May 19, 2022, at 11:47 AM, glen <[email protected]> wrote:
I agree. But I don't think that's obvious to many people. I also think the
foundations of math are political (... or perhaps ideological). And the
understandable tendency to reduce sociology to psychology to biology to
chemistry to physics is also political (or ideological). But there are plenty
of people smarter and more well-intentioned than me who disagree.
So for those people, whether originalists or evolutionists, who believe in the
Rule of Law, it's up to them (or us if we play along with the pretense) to
derive the right from the Constitution ... and perhaps peri-Constitution
precedent. And if the right *can't* be so derived, then it has to be grafted on
as an additional axiom, either a federal amendment or a diversity of state
laws/amendments.
On 5/19/22 11:35, Marcus Daniels wrote:
What first principles? The court is a political organization.
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