Supreme Ignorance

 

Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain

Friedrich Schiller

 

The US Supreme Court has just overturned Roe v. Wade. 

 

It is highly signifikant that members of this august institution act like mere tools for Trumpists and Evangelical radicals, a minority of the American nation localized at one extreme pole of the political spectrum. With the simultaneous decision to stop NY’s  century old gun control  law - which was simply common sense – the Court even turns against the true Republicans (not RINOs) who together with Democrats in the Senate have worked for a minimum of gun control. 

 

We are approaching the day when we may see more events like the storming of Congress, now initiated from a left wing outraged and radicalized by the general offensive from the right wing. An extreme minority cannot in the United States enforce it’s policies without resistance from people, politicians and states.

 

It is interesting and fascinating for a historian to follow this replication of the last century of the Roman Republic, but for the American nation it the prospects are troubling indeed.