honest and wise men

 

Supreme Court corruption

two contemporary viewer Comments under a news-reportage video:

~  I used to think the USA had a well developed constitutional government.  That is far from the truth.  It is a very fragile system.

~  To be fair, all systems of political organization are based on the honor system at the end of the day, and if enough of a society is devoid of honor and they make it into power, then no political system can correct for that.

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These came after a day when the Supreme Court heard arguments from one of Donald Trump's lawyers that presidents should have "immunity" and be allowed to kill people, without consequences.

(That quote from the psychologist:  "Fragile systems bend toward the most dysfunctional person in them.")

        "...If enough of a society is devoid of honor and they make it into power, then no political system can correct for that."

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The second U.S. President, John Adams, wrote in a letter to his wife:

"I Pray Heaven To Bestow The Best Of Blessings On This House and All that shall hereafter inhabit it.  May none but Honest and Wise Men ever rule under This Roof."

        I guess now is the time to Pray, and this coming November is the time to Vote.

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