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Comments like this, however well-meaning, are so frustrating because they invite such a wide variety of reality checks that correct the specific impossibilities
by eyelidlessness 3y ago
Comments like this, however well-meaning, are so frustrating because they invite such a wide variety of reality checks that correct the specific impossibilities … but there is a very clear imperative and nothing to attach it to.
Federal courts should, and won’t.
Congress should, and won’t.
There are numerous others who should, and won’t.
We have countless examples of impenetrable injustice like this, and there isn’t any structural way to justice that’s remotely reliable or trustworthy. And it’s easy enough to respond with the glibness that others have: the reality is that the appropriate authorities are craven and the “should” is hopelessly naive.
The answer to that is one I continually find unfortunate and yet necessary. There are no heroes. No one is coming to save us but ourselves and each other. The body which will put a stop to this is us. And it won’t be done by behaving and deferring to some different part of the system that enables it.
- bandyaboot 3y agoTo clarify, I’m under no delusion that there’s a chance this would actually happen. I was really just making a comment about how I think this should be handled in the hypothetical of the US having a functioning political system.