Of Courts And Kings

If courts are going to decide the outcome of elections, why bother holding the election in the first place? Why waste time and effort registering voters, printing ballots, hiring poll workers, and tabulating and certifying the results? Just put the two candidates in front of a panel of judges and have them decide who the winner is.

Of course, if the judges picked Biden over Trump in this most recent election, mobs of angry fascists would show up at their houses. Fascist don’t really want the courts to decide who wins any more than they want the voters to decide who wins. They simply want to ensure that their candidate comes out on top. The courts are just a convenient tool when the popular vote doesn’t go they way they want it to.

So, forget about standing in line to vote in the next election. Use that time to go for a nice walk. Use a copy of the Constitution to clean up after your dog. If the will of the people no longer decides our political future, Jeffersonian democracy is dead. We will have ended up back where we started, ruled by a greedy, lawless king.