So this started as a pity party, but now I'm getting riled about California. Would the liberals of California SHUT UP about you can't overturn the CA Supreme Court. They just invalidated the HEART OF DEMOCRACY AND REPUBLIC. I personally find that devistating, for me, my may some day exist children, for the future of this country. No one EVER thinks of precedent, of the two way street, of the fact that saying that the voters are wrong objectively is BAD.

For those who don't know, my thesis touched ever-so-briefly on the issue of the American judicial system, which may seem weird in light of the fact that it was about England and Arthur and myth, but trust me, the connection is there and the lack of it in practice is what's hurting us. Many argue this is about equal protection under the law, that the activism of the Courts is simply to ensure what is right. However, if this is right, then it will come to pass, and it will do so with the blessing of the people, or so the theory behind democracy as good government runs. For some the system is moving too slow, and that's bad. However, it's the inherent design of the system. It's ON PURPOSE. Why, you may ask? Because the founders worried about demagogues, about the passions of the people, about passion blurring reason to the point where some one is so centered on achieving the right that they will eviscerate the system to get it. A really really good, one that no one ever thinks of, is the Wiemar Republic.

Wiemar is, of course, the city in Germany where the German government of the 1920's and early 1930's was housed. Now, never forget that this was a people who was told by the rest of the world that they should shrivel up and die and fund the rest of everything in the process. The government was sort of set up for checks and balances, but the people felt so disconnected that the best supporters were the "reluctant republicans." Everyone else just ignored, or hated, or plotted. The disconnect between people and government was large, and troublesome. It opened the door to rhetoric, to people feeling they had to rescue themselves. Ultimately, of course, we arrive at the point where Adolf Hitler is ELECTED, in a fair (well, mostly fair) election. He was chosen-- most people forget that. All of this is to say that when passion takes over the system and puts it to use, you generally get bad things.

Bringing me back to California (if you're still with me and didn't yell "GODWIN'S" at the computer screen and leave), there is a system in place, and passionate people on BOTH sides of the issue are tearing it apart in the name of "the good." Ok, clearly only one of them can be right-- and that's AT MOST. My point is, the judges that voted no are not conservatives. On the contrary, most of them favor gay marriage. But they favor it being a measure of the people, by the people, for the people... have I heard that somewhere before? The issue at hand is not simply gay marriage (although it is there.) It is the furtherment of an agenda by a government agency that actively EXCLUDES the people from the thought process. When governments do that to people it usually ends in revolution. Although maybe CA will become that long promised island... Growing up in CA, your teachers always told you that "within ten years" (of what they never said) CA would be an island in the Pacific. So who knows.