Comments by "Tony Wilson" (@tonywilson4713) on "Why Constitutional Originalism Must Be Defeated" video.

This video is an excerpt of a preciously posted video from a few days ago. Although its pretty good there is a question they DID NOT ask of Professor Chemerinsky. On the staff of the UC Berkley Law School he is dean of, is John Yoo. John Yoo is NOT ONLY a well known member of the Federalist Society but was the author of the infamous "Torture Memo" during the Bush Administration. That memo lead to the abuses at Abu Ghraib (Iraq) and Bagram AFB (Afghanistan) as well as the issues with extraordinary rendition and the prison at Guantanamo Bay. John Yoo is a genuine criminal and should be in prison rather than being a tenured law professor. How is it that when they have professor Chemerinsky in an interview talking about the Constitution and the federalist Society that they don't bring up the issues with John Yoo?
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the stupidity of your comment is that you yell at the Lefties for not getting what they want but IGNORE that the right have been screaming about things like Roe V Wade for decades. Your comment that its all political dogma is 100% correct but framing that its only a Left problem is stupid.
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Why is it that F⋃CKWITS like you always bring anything to do the SCOTUS back to the gun issue??? Are you so insecure that you need an AR15 to define yourself??
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That's a reasonably nuanced answer with merit but what we are talking about is a group of people who claim to be the ONLY GROUP capable of interpreting something written by people who are no longer alive. This is not simply a problem with the US Constitution its a problem with so many social & political institutions and the dogmas created by people in these "We know the truth!" groups. On another subject but equally plagued with dogma is economics and that currently has an incredible effect on our lives. There's the 2 competing ideologies of capitalism that came from people like Adam Smith and David Ricardo versus the socialism & communism that came from people like Karl Marx. Right now we are dominated by Chicago School neoliberal economics that was formulated by people like Hayek and Freidman. Most of us have NO IDEA what any of them were on about. We rely on people interpreting what they meant. There are 100s of acolytes who will all happily explain the virtues of what Smith, Marx and Ricardo wrote and champion their causes AND they will do it no matter what evidence there is that the systems they put in place HAVE FAILED. The pure socialism and communism of Eastern Europe FAILED, but you can't tell that to a Marxist Lefty. The pure capitalism of America and the West is FAILING but you can't tell that to a Freidmanite Capitalist. I'm Australian but went to college in America. I think the US Constitution is one of the greatest achievements in human history BUT BECAUSE of these people who claim to be the true interpreters its now regarded as a joke around the world. I think the original Bill of Rights (the first 10 Amendments) is sublime genius but its been trampled on by packs of ideological M0R0Ns who act of of pure selfishness and arrogance.
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@benfaunce7496 Fair call. There's actually a couple of interesting things about this interview that's not being discussed. 1 - is the fact that here's professor Chemerinsky lamenting originalism and the federalist Society and yet on the Staff of the UC Berkley law school is John Yoo the infamous member of the Bush Administration who wrote the infamous "Torture Memo" that lead to all sorts of problems. John Yoo should be in prison not be a tenured law professor teaching anything. 2 - is the problem of ideologists taking their ideology too far. A couple of years ago I heard Jordan Peterson (when he still had brain function) describe how they know when people go too far on the Right (they get racist) but there's no clear indicator when someone on the Left goes too far. I think he was 1/2 right and 1/2 moronically wrong. At the fundamental level people have gone too far when they let an ideology dictate what's real rather than facts. We see this all the time with both Leftists and Right wingers. Its even with centrists who are so into appeasing BOTH sides that they never get anything done out of fear of upsetting someone. Look at all the Lefties who scream about capitalism these days. Emma Vigeland being an example of this who repeatedly say "Capitalism is the problem." She like many others forget the utter misery of what happened in Eastern Europe when socialism and communism were let run rampant. I find it amazing that the Green parties around the world are on the Left when some of the greatest environmental catastrophes were done by socialists and communists. There were no capitalists involved with the destruction of the Aral Sea or the destruction of the Chinese water ways. Which capitalist built all those coal fired power stations in China or ran their mines so badly they burned as much coal in the mines as they did in the power stations? Whenever we let ideologists go too far we are always in trouble its just a matter of what it takes to clean up afterwards.
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@benfaunce7496 I saw your comment about not being able to agree to progressive ideas and be a republican. I see your point but if you look at what the basics of what progressive, conservative or regressive mean than its easily possible to be a republican and be progressive and just as easy to be a democrat and be conservative. I'm an engineer so I tend to take some of these ideas at a very straight forward definition unlike poly-sci, sociologists and economists take these things and word salad them. To me a progressive wants to see progress, a conservative doesn't want change and a regressive wants to go back to some past state. As such I don't see a lot of conservatives as conservative but as regressive in that they want to go back to some 1950s "Happy Days" TV fantasy that never really existed. I see the word progressive as people who want to see the human race make progress IRRESPECTIVE of the social, technical or political issue. Although that mostly means they lean Left it does not exclude them being right leaning on issues like economics and industry. There's not many right leaning progressives but they do exist. Saagar over on Breaking points is one I know of. His buddy Marshall who does the Realignment is another. In an interview on Krystal Kyle and Friends, Jesse Ventura described himself as Socially Liberal and Fiscally Conservative. So he could be described as a right leaning progressive. I'll grant you any day that Right leaning progressives are rare but I do think they exist, but I'd also agree that I doubt many would vote Republican at this moment in time. That doesn't mean they haven't in the past. I'd also add to that I think its impossible to be a socialist and be progressive because at its core socialism with its "nobody owns anything and money doesn't exist" mentality is so close to ancient feudalism its scary. Probably the weirdest thing I see in all these ideologies is THEY ALL BELIEVE in some version of an impossible utopian fantasy that never existed but they all claim is easily attainable if we only do A, B, C,...
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