What bothers me in reading this thing is that this guy seems to believe in arbitrary rule, and not the rule of law. The same kind of noise came from Obama when he recently complained about the constitution getting in the way of the things he wanted to do for the people, so screw constitutions. Who does he think he is ? A non-moron or something?
Laws are always going to get in the way. But rather than be inconvenienced by procedures our grandiose elitists insist on ruling by decree. This is really scary when for our aspiring dictators when you have ignoramuses like the above mentioned driving issues like like “over-population” and “clean energy” (but not nuclear).
The smart people must take control over everything, since there is no God and no Providence. That's my guess as to their ultimate motivation.
I guess I’m not bothered by it because I’m used to it. That’s been the prevailing judicial philosophy since the progressive era: the law says whatever I say it says. Which is why whenever anyone brings up the academically sainted (aside from the too many generations of retards case or the Eugene Debbs case) Oliver Wendel Holmes I wanna pule.
Confused is my main reaction. I don’t see how it never occurred to them that at some point they may not be in power, and then may wish for the law to protect them. They’re protected, sorta, by the zeitgeist argument. That is, they’re not replacing the law with Anything Goes or their own personal preferences, oh, no no. They’re merely updating the law to reflect “the times.” And I suppose they’re confident either they’ll always be with “the times,” or that they can control popular opinion well enough that it won’t be able to stray too far. Which has been the case thus far.
The entire postwar conservative movement, so significant to me and probably you, with titans of thought like Hayek, Mises, Friedman, Kirk, Strauss, Weaver, Voegelin, etc. and the politicians who put their thought somewhat into action like Reagan, on down to the shock jocks like Rush who keep people entertained on a daily basis are as gnats swirling about their ears to them. They own academia, the MSM, most government, etc., and are untroubled.