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The fact that the very foundation of our legal system is fundamentally undemocratic (in the sense that no regular citizen can be reasonably expected to understa
by machine_ghost 2y ago
The fact that the very foundation of our legal system is fundamentally undemocratic (in the sense that no regular citizen can be reasonably expected to understand it) is starting to bubble up into societal awareness.
With everything Trump is doing to destroy the rule of law, and all the potential for technology to help us simplify it, I can only hope that when Trump burns it all down, the people who rebuild will be wise enough to do better.
- kubb 2y agoI think this might be a missed analogy, rule of law isn't like a house that you can burn down and rebuild stronger. The default state without rule of law is rule of the strongest. The law is like pillars that support a tunnel. Once these are weakened, the tunnel goes crashing down, and it has to be dug again. The society backslides to authoritarianism. And the price for digging a new tunnel is often a lot of blood.
- c048 2y agoI have little faith that, should it all be burned down, recreating it all from the ground up that it would be better. People need to accept that what Trump is doing is only possible because of what his predecessors put down as law. That means democratic presidents too. I didn't see Trump's detractors call all of this out when the winds were blowing their way. So no, I have no faith that rebuilding it from the ground up would make it one iota better. Not without deep societal changes.
- mmooss 2y ago> the people who rebuild That's you and I.