1933 vs 1984
"Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely." — Lord Acton
Our country is politically divided, with the danger to our Democracy and, ultimately, our freedom so high it has compelled the United States Supreme Court to wade into politics.
Democracy’s inherent risk is the danger of “One man, one vote, one time.” From Putin in Russia to Xi in China, from Erdogan in Turkey to Abbas in the West Bank, more humans live under a strongman having been democratically elected than they live in a true functioning democracy. Like Adolf Hitler, who mastered this strategy in Germany in 1933, Donald Trump now has the potential to implement the same strategy in America later this year.
On January 6th, 2020, Donald Trump tried to subvert our democratic process by exhorting his followers, however subtly or cunningly, to form a mob to overturn the will of the people. The Supreme Court will have the opportunity to decide whether to lean toward honoring the sovereignty of the people, thereby risking that a demagogue will use the rules of democracy to become a dictator “on day one only,” or apply the 14th Amendment to label Trump an “insurrectionist.”
Seen from a different angle, the justices face the potential that the Progressives’ hunger for power and its tendency to mob rule will inflict irreversible damage to the fundamental principles that assure freedom of expression and thought, a totalitarian danger best outlined in George Orwell’s classic 1984.
Our constitutional commitments to free speech, due process, and equal protection have been violated by our main public institutions, such as our Ivy League universities, major corporations, investment houses, Hollywood, and many politicians, all in the name of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion.
Whether it be Critical Race Theory or Black Lives Matter, Progressives have striven to hoodwink us with misrepresentations similar to Trump's claim to have won the last election. By applying this Orwellian strategy, the so-called Woke Progressives have promoted open borders; labeled Israel as the aggressor and Hamas as the victim; inflated college grades to the extent that every student can graduate summa cum laude on the way to finding a job as a barista; torn down statues; elevated the power of the teachers’ union over the student’s parents, and tried to convince us that gender is something different than what was assigned by a doctor at birth.
Caught between two big lies – which Lance Morrow calls “the depressive equilibrium of negatives” – how should our Supreme Court use Solomon’s wisdom to rule?
Since a ruling for or against Trump would disenfranchise half of the country, with the potential for civil war, the best course of action is to trust the wisdom of our founding fathers, as evidenced by the strength of our constitution having lasted 250 years, and let the people decide on November 5, 2024.
— Sina.