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The Supreme Court Mess and the Death of Scalia

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xThe Supreme Court decides the constitutionality of laws. This is completely traditional. The constitution itself does not give this role to the supreme court. Read the constitution. This is not a document that was created to be interpreted by legal scholars.

Legal scholars interpreting the constitution is a political outcome that has evolved so that politically powerful people are not absolutely bound by constitutional limitations on their activities.

What we have with the supreme court is an ongoing system of rewriting the constitution so as to satisfy. the preference of the group that hold the balance of political power at a given time.

A euphemism free look at the Supreme Court and our legal system is all that it is necessary to see this.

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Political Correctness and Euphemisms

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euphemism-misc1Lately there has been a lot of talk about political correctness, Fox News and Donald Trump. Political correctness has the flavor of a euphemism but it is a little different. Political correctness is a lie you are required to believe to participate.

Euphemisms are to humans what sand is to an ostrich. There is great comfort in believing what makes one feel safe and comfortable.

This if fine until it is necessary to fix something that is wrong in society. Since people and all of their institutions are treated as how we want them to to be rather than how they really are, problems are unsolvable.

All I do in my common sense economics approach is to look at the universe clear of the prism of euphemisms everyone else looks through. Anyone can do it. As soon as another economist takes up the habit I will no longer be the worlds best economist. I am certainly not the most intelligent or the most highly credentialed, just euphemism free. Anybody can do it.

Treat people and institutions according to how they function rather than by how they are defined and things clear up real quick. I warn you though it is not always pleasant.