Let me say this gently so nobody think's I'm wearing the High Hat here.
Before I went off and studied for 3 yrs and clerked for a judge for a year and spent time as a litigator and time as in-house counsel to a business, I used to think the K-12 basics were how our govt and how our courts worked.
Once I was through my first year of study I realized I was wrong about how law and our courts worked.
Once I spent some years in business, I learned how our government actually works.
Then I wanted to know "inside" govt workings so I spent 4 yrs as a greenie enviro planner working with US EPA and state equivalents. This is where I really saw how govt works and how fed funding is a giant carrot dangled before a starving rabbit. So much top-down control. Example: the region I worked on had no industry, so car/truck/bus/motorcycle etc were the main pollution source. Could we talk honestly with the Transportation Planning folks about ways to make traffic snarls better, ways to make the region more "driveable" and thus less congestion causing pollution? No sir. Transportation had to keep doing things as developers wanted or they would not get their fed hwy funds, which held them afloat more than direct state funding.
Look, I get what you're saying and I (in my literal grunt mind) believe we're somewhat arguing the same point. We're both saying it's one big scam, that the DC swamp from 1795 was never drained, and you can't swing a dead cat in DC without hitting fifteen people looking to fleece the common citizen for their own bankroll.
Idealistically, SCOTUS, Congress and POTUS would use the foundational documents as their runway lights to guide them in their decisions and actions. Small government would always be the basis of judgements and nothing would be instituted if it wasn't good for ALL the citizenry, rich and poor, sick and healthy, land owner and share cropper alike. 100% there with you.
Realistically, we have gay marriage as a Constitutional right, I can't own the same weapons I carried when I was active duty or even when I was a civilian security contractor for DoS/DoD, and despite what would be an extremely lucrative case for those making multiple millions a year and could hire entire firms of lawyers to strike it down, we still have a progressive income tax that penalizes success and a ponzi scheme social security system that's about to fall flat on its face.
Why? Because we don't have idealists and originalists on the court, at least nowhere near the amount we need to get a majority decision. The states gave up their rights to have their representatives in the Senate, the people got fleeced for a bigger budget that with no coincidence was immediately used to fight the biggest war in mankind to date then, and now we even have a major movement to eliminate the Electoral College so they can take down the last institution that is (somewhat) representative of the country as a whole.
I wasn't even a clerk for the 1stSgt, much less any judge, but I can tell we're all getting fucked by the courts that ignore everything written by the Founding Fathers.
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