It did. Then SCOTUS threw the presidency to Bush and commercial airliners flew into tall buildings in NY.

A perfect analogy. Good grief!

This is fantastic.

It doesn't fly in the face of the first at all. That's how the law ends up working (or not working) for people. If you can hire a team of educated lawyers, they can postpone, argue merits of, wording of, conditions of, etc -- written law.

If you can't hire that same team of lawyers, you just get told "that's how it is" and you don't get the same protections.

Like Trump saying he never vowed to "uphold" the constitution. That teeny tiny argument ended up costing like 2 weeks worth of court...

It's these little things, that lawyers then argue in appeals court -- to justify overturning a previous ruling. Things like the previous judge misapplying a ruling, etc. These "small" injustices are done every day to normal people who can't afford a team of lawyers to scrutinize every single little thing that a judge does.

In some cases, if a lower court gets it wrong -- then the decision gets overturned. However...if the lower court is slow, methodical, and steps very carefully - appeals will look at the person filing the appeal and laugh. But every single I has to be dotted. Every T has to be crossed. Everything has to be performed perfectly. It reduces the amount of scrutiny that the lawyers can use to their advantage.

Back in the before times, they two parties worked together quite fine in the backroom dealing, and only blustered when there were cameras, or the public, around.

Now that garbage is leaking into the backroom dealings, and it shows.

Out of curiosity, what is your vision of government where the players are simply at all-out war with one another instead of seeking compromise? Outside of an autocracy, I'm struggling to picture a stable government where people on different sides make no attempt at working together.

And if what you're seeking is a left-authoritarian government then I'm going to have to agree with the both-sidesers on this one. I don't want any flavor of authoritarian rule. Fascism is probably the worst, but the Soviet Union was a real shit show, too.

These are the real problem group. They are hooked on partisan politics and would never support a Democrat, but this comes at the cost of the cancer growing among their ranks. I dont think these people are all classical racist fascists. These are Christian church going family men entering middle and elderly age. They are in fact generally good people and they are proud of that fact. These are the 'nobody wants to work anymore', 'I worked two jobs to make it through college ' crowd. But they have done well and raised good families. They are in my mind good people, hard workers, and good leaders. But they can't get past this us vs them mentality. They don't like trump and the maga shit but only because it makes them look bad. They want to be taken seriously and maintain their honor but it's real hard when your new maga friends keep wearing swastikas.

They are conflicted and angry and have signaled that no matter what, the majority of them will place their pride above all and vote for Trump again and again. They just can't accept that shit got away from them and their great monolith party of principles and honor is anything but. They have to find any way to both sides it and make the maga cancer seem like a common problem amongst their enemies ranks as well. To them it's not a maga problem if they can create a boogeyman. BLM and trans people invading schools.

It falls apart quickly under review, so that's why they don't review. If you get your news by reading headlines and you get your headlines from fox news, you'll always have a safe space.

These men and women are inadvertently killing America. They are blind to it because their victory would seemingly benefit them and cause no problems. They don't realize the true ramifications because they dismiss all of that as liberal overreaction.

This is the group that scares me, just because they yield so much influence.