“If I don’t get to go to the all ages show with my friends tonight, I’m going to die. Dieeeeee, I tell you!”
Versus:
One is a remark by a spoiled, entitled little person who knows no rhetorical trick other than going full on dramatic.
The other is a teenager.
By 6-3 vote the SC decided, in West Virginia v. Environmental Protection Agency, that only the people’s representatives in congress, and not civil service bureaucrats, are allowed to determine US energy policy.
Hayes apparently considers democracy to be a threat to the planet.
Ha! These entitled, clueless morons that live in a land of make believe, never call out their own responsibilities for damage to the environment and to the human condition from making movies. Explosions, lengthy gun fights, murder and mayhem, all cause damage. They make millions of dollars, but feel justified in arrogantly chastising the people that pay to see their lame ass crap.
Leftists say:
– “SCOTUS is a threat to democracy!”
– “SCOTUS is a threat to the planet!”
– “These justices lied in their confirmation hearings!”
– “Desegregation, gay marriage, interracial marriage, etc. will be overturned next!”
What it sounds like to someone with knowledge of how the Constitution and laws work, still has his/her sanity, and is capable of logical thinking– in other words, not the Democratic base: “We’re afraid of getting trounced in the midterms, time to fund-raise!”
The reasoning of the Court is quite clear and quite consistent: it will not invent rights or laws out of thin air, that is the job of Congress. Congress has been dysfunctional for decades, and this Court should finally help put the critical spotlight where it belongs.
CaptCommissar America thinks this is too important to be left to the wrong people. I agree with the premise, but not on who the “wrong” people are.I think that I’ve written about this here before, but let’s put an end to the idea that democracy is a good thing, and the more democratic a nation we are, the better.
No one really believes this. No one believes that the 65% of this country that is white should be able to vote minorities into slavery. The majority isn’t always right.
We approach democracy as a means of holding our elected representatives responsible for their votes. The only punishment we can democratically condemn them to is loss of office. Granularity is built into the system, the people of Texas hold their reps in the federal and state governments responsible. The people of the rest of the US have no vote in their political contests.
We also limit the reach of Democracy via the structure of our government. The federal government does not have plenary power because a federal government that does have plenary power would allow the 51% to despoil and enslave the 49%. States have plenary power, but that power is limited by the Bill of Rights.
So let’s stop talking about “democracy” as a good/bad construct, shall we?
It’s something of an amusing thought that SCOTUS would be a threat to the planet because it refuses to make unelected bureaucrats with a tenuous grasp of science and economics the architects of our national economy. It is as if the left has forgotten what was found when the Iron Curtain was removed–a series of ecological disasters that made the worst Superfund sites in the U.S. look positively benign in comparison.
Really, we might argue that the Supreme Court is saving the environment by slowing the EPA down in this regard. The EPA is, after all, the same cast of characters that thinks that killing eagles with windmill blades, subsidizing cars that effectively burn coal, and subsidizing solar cells created by burning coal amounts to an environmental win.
“A threat to the planet…”. See the neat little rhetorical trick Mr. Hayes uses, very common among the alarmist crowd? He starts his “argument” with a false premise, namely that CO2 must be regulated or we’ll all die, so anyone who doesn’t believe that is a moron. That first premise must be proved, first, and it hasn’t been. This is science, not politics, and there are steps that must be followed.