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I'm an Antifederalist, so news like this doesn't disturb me...

"Confidence in U.S. institutions such as the FBI, Supreme Court and Congress has been on a steady decline since 2017 and is now reaching record lows. More broadly, less than a third of voters trust the federal government – a 20-year low…what’s going on now is different. The U.S. is already amid a crisis of confidence in what we call our governing institutions."

https://www.foxnews.com/media/public-trust-fbi-reached-red-zone-us-inching-closer-mayhem-chaos-anarchy-wsj-columnist

a source familiar with the matter 2y ago

I mostly agree

but I am convinced that (public meaning) Orginalism is the proper methodology of legal interpretation, so I am somewhat disheartened that SCOTUS is losing credibility precisely as that doctrine prevails

While I would welome a return to Jeffersonian republicanism, my concern is not limited to SCOTUS attempts at restoration so much as the knowledge that we will have to live with (or at least somewhat near) these people (US Brahmin) after the current regime collapses

If we have to make a treaty with them (for example) it is disturbing to think they would regard it as a "living" document, subject to radical reinterpretation

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Marakesh 𓅦 2y ago

Not only would we have to worry about them treating treaties as "living documents," but if the US were to split into at least two different countries, the good Americans would still be neighbors to the bad American state, which would still try to dominate and control the good Americans, and might even engage in war to do so.