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Jeffrey L Minch's avatar

It will take some considerable time for this US Supreme Court decision to work through American society. It will completely unremarkable in 5 years, but until then there will be world class histrionics because, as you note, the race baiting industry will not go quietly.

It is worth noting that President Donald J Trump is responsible for the current makeup of this current Supreme Court. It will be his lasting legacy that he appointed good Justices who focused solely on the law and the Constitution.

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If you think about it, a lot of the rancor in this country today is factions of people worrying about others cheating or using nefarious methods to gain leverage or advantage. The need for fairness is an embedded almost innate human trait (among non-psychopaths), and it's absolutely necessary for civilization to advance and live in peace in the long run.

Name any society/country in the past that succeeded when it used unfair principles in governance, picking winners and losers based on "what" they were versus "who" they were? The U.S. succeeded precisely because it abandoned these thousand-year old traits and gave everyone a fresh start. That's why the Europeans left - nobility and peasantry and the inability to escape your station -- the use of arbitrary or immutable characteristics to determine outcome, rather than *behavior*.

Prior to today's decision, we were heading closer and closer to this same reality. Even if you agree with it, it ultimately doesn't work.

Life is hard enough, and people get disgusted quite quickly when they see obvious advantages bestowed on others simply because of power. In the long run, it never works, as the structures are overthrown.

In that sense, the SC did all of us a huge favor here. If you think that our current system is "unfair" then attack the root causes, don't band aid it with other immutable characteristics that exclude people for arbitrary reasons.

I'm very glad today.

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