Away from Liberalism

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Clarissa

July 1, 2023

I don't know what to tell you guys. We have to expand the Court. If we don't expand the Court, no liberal policy will be allowed to exist for the rest of our lives. That's why Republicans stole the court, that's why rich people pay for justices.
Govern yourselves accordingly.
— Elie Mystal (@ElieNYC) June 30, 2023

I don’t know what this person is inhaling but the idea of a country where no liberal policy is allowed to exist is sounding pretty attractive right now. I think we should all take a break from liberalism because it has painted itself into a corner and there’s nowhere to go from here but into authoritarianism.

Unfortunately, liberalism is so deeply ingrained in all of us that I don’t see a turn away from it in our near future. Such a turn would require a voluntary decision on the part of many to stop being slaves to our raging desires, and nobody is ready to do that. We’ve been taught to think that virtue lies precisely in humoring our every whim. Unlearning that doesn’t seem like anything people want to do.

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4 responses to “Away from Liberalism”

TomW

July 1, 2023

The court has become so politicized in part because Congress can’t/won’t pass clear laws to deal with things.

I do think the Supreme Court and other federal courts are in need of reform, but people only seem interested in making changes that would help their side in the near future rather than making changes that would lead to a better court in the long term. The most important change would be making the appointments for 15 or 20 years rather than having lifetime appointments. There also needs to be some basic code of ethics for the courts. They shouldn’t be giving secret speeches at private events or accepting huge gifts from people who are involved in court cases. And no one in their immediate families should be actively working in politics.

On the subject of lifetime appointments, that is also relevant in academia. US universities had mandatory retirement ages when the tenure system was created. I do think some of the issues with tenure in the current era are related to the end of mandatory retirement ages. I can think of several examples of people who held onto their tenured positions long past the age when they were doing anything useful in teaching or research.

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1. Clarissa
  
  July 1, 2023
  
  I agree completely on both points. Absolutely, we need to see legislature legislating and doing its job.
  
  And we definitely need to have mandatory retirement. There are egregious cases in academia, and everybody knows it’s true.
  
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PMan

July 1, 2023

Liberalism has a lot of good things, but it has gone nuts as of late. The liberals, who are so used to controlling all the cultural organs of power, and who were used to the Court rubber stamping a lot of their policies for many years, are now mad with rage that the Court is actually adhering to the Constitution and putting a stop to a lot of such.

However I do not agree with the conservatives on the Court regarding same-sex marriage not being protected and abortion I am not sure.

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1. Dreidel
  
  July 2, 2023
  
  “However I do not agree with the conservatives on the Court regarding same-sex marriage not being protected and abortion I am not sure.”
  
  For practical purposes, the Constitution means whatever the current majority of the Supreme Court says it does.
  
  The Supreme Court — like many lower-level federal judges — has become SUPRA-constitutional over the years, assuming without any legal basis the absolute right to interpret the laws of the land in any way that those judges determine. State governments and the U. S. Congress, which have the sole legitimate authority to modify state constitutions and the U.S. Constitution, have simply rolled over like pet dogs and made no effort to even bark back.
  
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