"What happened to Donald Trump ???" needs to be etched in stone next to "Who is John Galt ???" Once the stonecutters have done that, they can start chiseling the vital dates for constitutional government in these United States

 
Bit by bit, we are watching it ALL crumble..... 

 

The U.S. Supreme Court has repeatedly shown that its game plan always calls for  >>> punting on third down <<<   So, regardless of its makeup,  place not your faith in those princes of pro forma and  platitudinous prudence.  ---  Believe it or not, the recent Supreme Court "Texas decision" was pretty much decided on very much the same grounds as "Dred Scott"  ---  not getting beyond the issue of "standing"  >>>  With the Court saying, more or less,  "We don't see you, so we can't hear you."   

>>>  Well, in this instance, add my "HEAR-HEAR !!!" to Dicken's character in  "Oliver Twist,"  Mr. Bumble, who had it just about right when he said,  "THE LAW IS A ASS...  A IDIOT." 

Our emergent dystopia was all predicted by the likes of H.G Wells,  and then by a latter day George Orwell,  in allegory and narrative fiction, then in Ayn Rand's magnum opus "Atlas Shrugged" and then in countless contemporary serialized novel variants and/or computer games  

---  but it was all talked about long before that by the likes of Plato and Thucydides, and the Gospel writer Matthew and the writer of the Book of Revelation, with many others along the way, including much of what's in Shakespeare  ---  and in the middle of it all, are judges and the courts

....  It's not accidental that one of the worst times in the pre-Christian history of Israel is during the times covered in the "Book of Judges."

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Note:  In a moment of ABSOLUTE FICTION, in Ayn Rand's "The Fountainhead," the book's rhetorical climax is when Hoard Roark's summation in a case about who owns the product of one's mind convinces the court and Roark is vindicated.