Many hope Donald Trump has brought new hope and that he can avoid both anarchy and tyranny.
When John Adams wrote, “A republic is a government of laws, not arbitrary rule” he very likely could not even conceive of the constantly evolving laws we know too well today, laws that evolve substantially, essentially, from one kind to another; and this is no stable law at all, but capricious faux “law”.
“Law,” in the American and general European version of democracy, is ever in flux, ever changing from one thing to another. It is forever “evolving,” per Darwin’s imaginative narrative(1), towards the predetermined “scientific” collectivist(2) goal whereby man becomes God, the only ‘Law’ giver; and so the State becomes ultimate. Public morality, following unstable law, follows suit.
So in politics today the unstable ends has served to justify the unstable means. This is the legacy of the age of the so-called Jacobin Enlightenment after the French Revolution. This is what must change
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(1) “Among animals, biological variability within a given species becomes more and more conspicuous as we move up the evolutionary scale. This biological variability is highest in man, and human beings display a greater degree of biochemical, structural, and temperamental diversity than do the members of any other species. This is a plain observable fact. But what I have called the Will to Order, the desire to impose a comprehensible uniformly upon the bewildering manifoldness of things and events, has led many people to ignore this fact. They have minimized biological uniqueness and have concentrated all their attention upon the simpler and, in the present state of knowledge, more understandable environmental factors involved in human behavior.
“As a result of this environmentally centered thinking and investigation,” writes Professor Williams, “the doctrine of the essential uniformity of human infants has been widely accepted and is held by a great body of social psychologists, sociologists, social anthropologists, and many others, including historians, economists, educationalists, legal scholars and men in public life. This doctrine has been incorporated into the prevailing mode of thought of many who have had to do with shaping educational and governmental policies and is often accepted unquestioningly by those who do little critical thinking of their own.” — Aldous Huxley, Brave New World Revisited
(2) “Permanent crisis is what we have to expect in a world in which over-population is producing a state of things, in which dictatorship under Communist auspices becomes almost inevitable.” (Ibid.)
“Democracies will change their nature…”
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—NYT: Democrats Run on Abortion, Even for Offices With Little Say on the Issue
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