The fact that civil schools taught us about checks and the remains do not work. Lack of freedom to fight, defend the institutions of liberal democracy, exciting.
The institutions of civil society, organizations and practices that give democracy, its essence, are destroyed. The word of the day is surrender. It is amazing how fast the liberal order falls. Those who are accused of its preservation bow To the freedom of the future king and the Lord, which is so authorized by its billions that laws and norms do not apply to it. This suggests that the rotting-non-system in the system, the feeling that it serves a little more than the personal goals of the authorities and the privileges-deep and long-standing.
The fault does not rely on Trump and Musk. They announced their intentions. Moreover, this is the quick surrender of their requirements. Lack of freedom to fight, defend the institutions of liberal democracy, exciting. Yes, these institutions were and have been unsuccessful. They often do not match their rhetoric and ideals. But now the ideals have been broken. It is power, money and personal interest on the way up and down the relationship chains where the rule of men replaced the rule by law.
The Colombian University threw his students, teachers and the bus reputation only for the opportunity to restore some 400 million dollars In the federal grants, the Trump administration was canceled on March 7. Mighty New York Law Firm, Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wartton and Garnison, agreed to provide Trump 40 million dollars In free legal services, so that he is not subject to order of the president, which prohibits members from federal buildings and reject their security. Neither the university nor the firm fought, though they could have. They do not seem to do it because they believe more money and privileges than in truth and justice. For many, this is probably not naive.
These surreys adhere to Shumer failure To use small Democrats leverage in the budget process, to push away from Trump’s reduction. They also continue the concessions that began immediately after the election. Recall that ABC News settled a defamation claim that Trump brought revenge for comments on the leading George Stefanapoulas, agreeing to sacrifice 15 million dollars To the Trump presidential library. Meta settled a suit that Trump brought against Facebook (and Instagram) after the platform was suspected after the January 6 uprising. The company died 25 million dollarsWith 22 million dollars go to the Trump presidential library. In case this was not enough to prove yourself as a reliable vassal, Mark Zuckerberg even further bent knee, avoid Checking facts and loosing content on Meta platforms.
Trump has shot firms for money and uses money to shake institutions. Its regime is looted and predatory. It requires loyalty and punishes those who have passed it. Leaders in the media, law and academic sciences romance kiss on the ring.
In his “Discourse about the origin and basis of inequality among men,” Jean-Jacques Rousseau describes the progress of inequality in three stages. The latter transforms the legitimate into arbitrary force. Rousseau writes:
Here, all individuals become equal again because they are nothing, and after the subjects have no law but the will of the master, and the master has no other guide than his hobbies, the concepts of good and the principles of justice disappear again. Everything here comes to the law of the strongest.
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Our institutions are selfless. The fact that civil schools taught us about checks and the remains do not work. Now the struggle is increasingly relevant and dangerous. Many of us have taken for granted a system in which we would eventually be okay as we did our job and kept our heads down. Some of us felt safe enough to put out our neck armed with the feeling that what is simple and right and goodwill prevail. A few of us were convinced that the facts and the truth would buy us when we encountered our day in court. These days have gone.
Our struggle can not be to return them – at least not the older. This should be for something better, for an economy focused on meeting needs, not profit, for social relations of equality and mutual respect. This is the struggle we can win.
