Trust fund commies are the worst commies.
Silver Spoon Communist
- Donald R. McClarey
Donald R. McClarey
Cradle Catholic. Active in the pro-life movement since 1973. Father of three, one in Heaven, and happily married for 43 years. Small town lawyer and amateur historian. Former president of the board of directors of the local crisis pregnancy center for a decade.
Mamdani’s father is an academician and is an acute manifestation of the decay of higher education. The family is wealthy, but that’s atypical among faculty. Faculty are among our Bourbons. They have odd advantages, but do not usually have a mass of salable assets.
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Wealthy people need to vigorously educate their children that there are apposite and inapposite ways to live your life and that includes how you spend your spare time and your spare cash. It will often fall on deaf ears, regrettably.
After this very dangerous and stupid man is elected, which seems inevitable given the percentage of bubble-dwellers amongst the city’s voters and the certainty of significant fraud, he will make the tenure of David Dinkins look like a Golden Age. Detroit is all but dead, Chicago is circling the drain, and The Big Apple will likely follow suit.
It’s too bad that the Supreme Court Justices who shoved the Baker, Wesberry and Reynolds cases down the nation’s collective throat aren’t here to see what they have wrought. Reversing those cases, thereby kicking the Federal courts out of the business of dictating state-level legislative districts, would be a nice present to the nation, but it’s probably never going to happen absent a Constitutional amendment.
It has baffled me since my college Con Law course how the same Constitution that provides for two Senators per state has been found to prohibit states from writing their own Constitutions in the same way. I guess I’m just too simple to understand the deep meanings of the Equal Protection Clause. 🤷♂️
Receiving lavishly without work is the basis of the trust fund socialist. They have a certain generosity of spirit inasmuch as they wish everyone could receive what they have – wealth without labor.
Unfortunately, the parents who did not succeed in teaching them the value of work (or never tried) also did not instill other vital values in their children, such as not to take what is not theirs, you shouldn’t force others to do what you want, and an accurate sense of their own importance.
Frankfurter nailed it Frank in his dissent in Baker:
Such a massive repudiation of the experience of our whole past in asserting destructively novel judicial power demands a detailed analysis of the role of this Court in our constitutional scheme. Disregard of inherent limits in the effective exercise of the Court’s “judicial Power” not only presages the futility of judicial intervention in the essentially political conflict of forces by which the relation between population and representation has time out of mind been, and now is, determined. It may well impair the Court’s position as the ultimate organ of “the supreme Law of the Land” in that vast range of legal problems, often strongly entangled in popular feeling, on which this Court must pronounce. The Court’s authority — possessed of neither the purse nor the sword — ultimately rests on sustained public confidence in its moral sanction. Such feeling must be nourished by the Court’s complete detachment, in fact and in appearance, from political entanglements and by abstention from injecting itself into the clash of political forces in political settlements.
Whenever the Supreme Court decides to act like a band of Platonic Guardians rather than a court, the result is almost always a disaster for this country. Baker and its progeny transformed states with large cities into city-states with the rural areas usually reduced to powerless serfdoms.
The problems from which New York City is suffering do not have anything to do with the reapportionment decisions. New York City may have institutional problems, but Mamdani’s prominence is a cultural one. Someone who is thinking straight sees a 33 year old man only recently married, with no children and no real trade. His family has scant history in the country and his father is a malevolent figure. You don’t put anything whose welfare interests you in the care of such a person. Yet, many are willing. It strongly suggests a populous filled with frivolous people who haven’t a clue how anything works.
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https://www.leaderu.com/ftissues/ft9305/articles/mankowski.html
So, a (very) quick review of the Wesberry, Baker, and Reynolds cases reveals that the first confirmed the expectation of redistricting, the other two dealt with number of people in a state Senate and whether the federal courts could intervene in redistricting.
Must admit, I’m hard pressed to explain why the initial creates a problem?
In my State, we have two large (ish) population centers, the rest remain relatively rural. So, naturally, we have three Representatives, one each for the cities, 1 for the rural areas. …I don’t think trying to force rural and urban together would work very well. ..Urban centers will always demand more attention by having… more people. Or are we concerned about something else?
As for the other two, …OK, federal intervention in numbers of Senators or how districts are arranged strikes me as over-reach. Such should be in the hands of each State’s Supreme Court. …On the other hand, my State decided to eliminate it’s Senate some decades past, ….Legislatures can screw themselves up as easily as judges can louse them.
Yet leads into another issue: Federal government should never expect to try saving the citizens of a State from their own stupidity. If the people of New York choose Mamdani, …we’ll hear (more) complaints from New Yorkers soon enough.
In that case, I would mostly be concerned about whether Wall Str will tough it out there in the City…or if it’ll move.
Gross and the true meaning of the term “spoilt”.
Or are we concerned about something else?
What the Founding Fathers were concerned about: the domination of a polity by King Numbers. States should be free to address that issue if they wish, which most states usually did, by placing the upper house on a different footing than population, mirroring the plan of Congress.
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