Thought For The Day

A Simple Twist Of Hate

December 24, 2022

There is a saying most of us have heard. Though often attributed to Albert Einstein, its actual origin is in doubt:

“Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.”

When it comes to Ratpublicans, particularly in the current context of needing, and most Americans wanting, common sense gun reform (including a ban on assault weapons), meaningful abortion rights, civil rights and voting rights, increased taxes on the very rich, and immediate and robust action on climate crisis, this wise saying must be modified ever so slightly:

“Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and desiring the same results.”

Of course, this is not merely insanity, it is evil. And it turns out that this also holds true for pretty much all Ratpublican policies. 

Unfortunately, the problem is not isolated to Ratpublicans, though they have taken things to the extreme. As Dahlia Lithwick in her new book Lady Justice: Women, the Law, and The Battle to Save America, Elie Mystal in his recent best seller Allow Me To Retort: A Black Guy’s Guide to The Constitution, and others insist, our laws and customs are working exactly as they were designed. Kind of insane.

Far too many of our founding designs and documents protected the rights of slavers and gave none whatsoever to women or indigenous peoples. The bizarre Electoral College (something absent in every other democracy), the badly designed Senate (which gives states like Wyoming excessive representation, and there are simply too many Dakotas, Virginias and Carolinas), and an unelected (over 95 percent white and male throughout its history) Supreme Court.

You’ll notice there is no Sanity Clause.

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