I have wondered specifically about the Supreme Court in the case of Bush v. Gore where, astonishingly, I believe that the majority--five out of nine justices--were engaged in an evil act. And I wonder how that could happen without Satan hanging around.
The man who uttered these particular thoughts was none other than M. Scott Peck, author of The Road Less Traveled.
Read about it here: "Exorcism: The Comeback. Was Satan behind Bush v. Gore?", John J. Miller, Wall Street Journal, June 3, 2005.
Whether all acts of political perfidy happen because Satan was "hanging around" is unknown at this time. It's a thought though. Next time Col. Bunny gets his ass kicked in court he can try out that theory back at the coffee shop. "Yup. No doubt about it. What we're looking at here is a case of demonic possession." Col. Bunny's status as a certified loose cannon would be unchallengeable for decades.
It's increasingly clear to me that liberals find a way to divide people in the world into two groups: really, really nice people you can trust and scum sucking swine. "Corporations" are a source of distilled evil whereas a civil rights or environmental organizations are run by people who don't need to change their socks.
This great country started out with a legal structure that assumed that all men are composed of parts both good and bad and that personal temptation, character defects, political ambition and the love of faction are best held in check by institutional restraints such as federalism (R.I.P.), separation of powers, and strict construction of the Constitution.
Liberal hagiographists, however, have an uncanny ability to know virtue and its absence.
How cool is that?
Given a choice between relying on (1) correctly identifying the sainted or (2) the crass, mind-deadening clash of faction and interest in politics, I vote for pitting the delusional (see earlier post) against each other with maximum press/blog scrutiny.
It's not healthy for the Republic that "freedom" is generally understood by the population as a given, which eternal status quo it is the job of the military to preserve. ("They fought for freedom.")
What goes on behind the back of the military is the real problem and we pay dearly in myriad ways for our failure to focus on how there is no institutional counterbalance to the accretion of state power at the expense of the individual.
If you doubt that, consider, Dear Reader, that only on April 17 did you cease your exclusive labors to fund the operations of government at all levels. (It was recently as late as May 3, 2000, until the, er, um . . . Republican tax cuts.)
If Satan is at work anywhere in the land, he's doing yeofiend's work to deaden the appreciation of a people -- with a heritage of genuine liberty -- that liberty is genuinely at risk.
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