I’ve said for years that Society could be analogized as a wall – standing tall and strong. Still true if you pull out the random brick from here and there, it still holds. Continue to do so and it starts weaving a bit like a skyscraper in a hurricane; continue to do so and targeting the “important” bricks, and we all know what will happen. Liberty Unyielding believes we have hit the “too many yanked bricks” time (emphasis mine):
Legal minds will write more detailed briefs about the ins and outs of the decision in King v. Burwell. But what’s more important at this turning point is a sense of history, and what it means for a people when its last governmental refuge for black-letter understanding self-detonates.
We know that the legislature and the executive already abandoned reason, process, and good faith in creating the Obamacare monster. The Supreme Court has now very clearly done the same.
America can’t remain the country we have been under these circumstances. The high walls protecting the people against a weaponized government have collapsed. There are still many who don’t see that – including conservatives – and I am deeply sorry for their blindness and unpreparedness. Many of them mean well, or at least want to.
If you think your slice of America will be able to coast along in a consequence-free hiatus after this ruling, you haven’t been paying attention. This isn’t Roe v. Wade, and it’s not 1973. It wasn’t like this in the 1970s. I was there. America reeled under a number of blows in that shabby, often silly decade, but there was a center, and it held.
Today, the bulwarks of modern civilization have been collapsing around us, throughout the globe, for at least the last four years: faster and more dramatically than anyone would have predicted – and indeed at an accelerating pace. We can expect the process to continue speeding up, even if it’s hard to predict from day to day exactly what events will mark its progress.
So, do you go with the flow, run faster than the guy next to you so he becomes the bear’s lunch, hunker down?
Or do you fight?
