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<p>I agree that the illusion of there being only the single axis of
Left/Right is a travesty. <br>
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<p>I also intuit that my own preferences for ranked-choice-voting to
*allow in* more dimensions may be naive in some way I don't fully
apprehend.</p>
<p>I'd love for you (and others) here to explore the paradoxes and
inconsistencies implied in all of this.<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 10/9/20 9:18 PM, Eric Charles wrote:<br>
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<div dir="ltr">--- reconfigure (expand) it from 9 to 15 but<br>
*balance* the Left/Right ideology (I think he proposed 5/5) and
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<div dir="ltr">Note that one thing both parties
agree on is that we should conceive politics as
utterly and completely a choice between the two of
them. God forbid that we conceive of judges using
any other dimensions. In fact, let's enshrine it
in law that we must forever focus on exactly
whether we have a "balance" of "left" and "right".
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<div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Oct 8, 2020 at 4:48 PM
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I refer to the last bit as "ok fine, TWIST my drinking arm!"
when<br>
someone offers to buy me one... the only one to twists my
drinking arm<br>
this last six months has been Mary... and Maybe Stephen and
his circle<br>
on "ZoomGrappaNight".<br>
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I don't like the language around "packing the court". I
don't think<br>
"reconfiguring the court" is the same as "packing the
court". Clearly,<br>
the (not so) loyal opposition to the Dems *would* pack the
court... add<br>
6 more justices and make sure they are ALL conservative
leaners. Pete<br>
Buttegeig was the first to speak of this in my earshot, and
HIS version<br>
sounded pretty reasonable... reconfigure (expand) it from 9
to 15 but<br>
*balance* the Left/Right ideology (I think he proposed 5/5)
and then<br>
leave it to the Justices themselves to fill the remaining 5
(through<br>
some arcane process?). What the Republicans have been
building up to<br>
for decades is "packing the courts". <br>
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Checks and balances are tricky, as is depending on social
norms and<br>
standards, but I think it might be "as good as it gets", at
least for<br>
the time being.<br>
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- Steve<br>
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On 10/8/20 1:36 PM, uǝlƃ ↙↙↙ wrote:<br>
> Ha! That was the essence of one of the 538 panel member's
phrasing suggestion for Kamala Harris in response to Pence's
question about packing SCOTUS. The elaborated version was:
"Because confirming Barrett, NOW, is such a horribly wrong
thing to do, we have no choice BUT to pack the court." ...
I.e. now look what you made me do. That was my dad's favorite
phrase to justify whatever abuse he chose to mete out that
day. He once ran over my bicycle with his truck. I *made* him
run over my bike because I left it laying in the driveway.
It's a running joke with my fellow drinkers who *regularly*
FORCE me to drink more than I should. There is no free will. I
live to serve.<br>
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> On 10/8/20 11:28 AM, Marcus Daniels wrote:<br>
>> Look what you made me do,<br>
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