Comments by "Tony Wilson" (@tonywilson4713) on "Lies, Politics and Democracy: J. Michael Luttig (interview) | FRONTLINE" video.

  1. 2 Extraordinary quotes in this. The obvious one is his tweet and the way he describes doing it, but before that is another: Starting at 2:34:25 "That's why today, I believe that America, and for sure American democracy, is at risk, because those representatives whom the founders completely understood would tend to act in their own self-political interest rather than the interest of the country, the founders believed that the system would constrain them. Today proves that the founders, as wise as they were as to that, were mistaken." FYI - I'm Australian but went to college in America. I did engineer but a bunch of my friends were pre-law and we used to discuss these sorts of things. I'd studied Orwell (Animal Farm and 1984) and used to maintain that any country could fall into a totalitarian dictatorship if it wasn't careful. They used to say that can't happen in America because the Constitution was built to prevent that happening. Basically it had safety functions that would not allow any person or small group of persons to do take over. One thing the founding fathers didn't consider is the influence of lobbying. UNELECTED groups and organisations who would seek to influence the operation of government for their own gain. Organisations the unelected Federalist Society, unelected Heritage Foundation and unelected CATO Institute. Then there is the extraordinary influence institutions like Harvard, Yale and U. Chicago have had spitting out and endless supply of acolytes who end up in all sorts of places of INFLUENCE. Do you know 14 of the last 18 SCOTUS Judges including 8 of the current 9 studied at Harvard or Yale where the Federalist Society was started. The next SCOTUS Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson studied at Harvard or that 5 of the 7 named to replace Judge Breyer were either Harvard or Yale. That's an extraordinary level of power concentrated among a handful of people and totally against what the founding fathers set out to do.
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