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2016 Was the Most Important Recent Election
2016 was more important than the Great Disappointment of 2022 — not that 2022 was unimportant.
Over the decades I have watched politics, I have seen just about every institution decline in honesty and competence. That would be journalism, education, health care, and the FBI to start. The list is long.
One institution has improved over time, and that is the Federal Judiciary. Even when Chief Justice Roberts controlled the Supreme Court, it was an improvement over the courts that preceded it.
On November 8, 2016, we came within a few thousand votes of throwing all that away. We would have ended up with a left-wing Supreme Court along with a left-Wing Executive Branch. And the court would still be left-wing today.
To those folks who like to mock the “But … Gorsuch!” argument, here’s another opportunity. Mock away.
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And that harridan didn’t get the ultimate prize for her life of crime.
True.
And a big addition beyond the Supreme Court for those of us who had been idling was the reveal of what has been and is going on designed to enslaved the people of the world.
It was like a call to arms and it is not even close to over.
Oh, and we didn’t get another infernal Bush . That rates pretty high also.
What a thought. That would have resulted in all post-Reagan Republican presidents being named Bush, which was the case before Trump came along.
I wonder whether the actual honesty and competence has declined, or just the perceived honesty and competence. That is, that these institutions – journalism, education, the FBI – were always run for the benefit of the establishment, rather than in pursuit of truth, wisdom and justice, but (a) we didn’t notice; and (b) the establishment shared, or purported to share, (some of) the interests of the people in general. Now that the establishment holds the people in open contempt, and nakedly pursues its every anti-cultural whim, the institutions are more obviously at odds with their professed – but never actually practiced – ideals.
I make this distinction in diagnosis because it’s important to the prescription. You can’t ‘reform’ journalism, for example, because it was, is, and always will be about pushing their masters’ narrative. You can’t ‘reform’ government education, because it is inherently about moulding young people to the ends of the establishment. You can’t ‘reform’ federal law enforcement, because its primary institutional loyalty is always going to be to the exercise of centralized power.