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"There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect."
by pstuart 2mo ago
"There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect."
- rootusrootus 2mo agoA pithy quote from the bowels of the Internet (a commenter on a blog). Liberals love it, conservatives hate it, I don't know that it describes an old school republican very well, or even MAGA for that matter.
- pstuart 2mo agoI did some cursory digging on that before I shared it. There's fundamental differences of thought for what government is supposed to be, and it's obviously mutated over time. At its core, government is power over people, and the evergreen question is "how far should that power go, and who wields that power?" I believe that there are reasonable concerns on "both sides" about that, but the reality is that power is effectively wielded by the wealthy. Democracy is an experiment that ostensibly runs counter to that.
- dredmorbius 2mo ago<https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=FrankWilhoit https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=FrankWilhoit>
- pstuart 2mo agoCool that he's here. Thanks! That quote is completely spot on, so any objection to it is worthy of asking why so. The problem with that is that it's not likely to have a satisfactory answer.