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Originally posted by Dragonlich
Reasons enough.
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Not for me - not to justify essentially lying to the American people and behaving as though we are the only country who has any say in what goes on on this planet. This is a dangerous game we are playing, one in which every move is rife with the possibility for unintended consequences, and dangerous precedents.
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(Oh, and who cares if the US people cannot name ONE!, ONE! supreme court justice. It's not like they have a need for such knowledge in their day-to-day lives.
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But that's exactly the problem - people think that if it doesn't matter to their day-to-day lives, what's the point in knowing it? The point is that the SC is an integral part of our government and people ought to at least have some idea who is shaping the course of American law, who has the ability to rule on election laws, who has the ability to set precedents that *will* affect our day-to-day lives: think about this affirmative action case, or if RvW ever does make it to the SC level again, or the sodomy case from Texas. Those rulings will have consequences!
That two thirds of the populace can't name even one of them, and don't care, bespeaks a complete abdication of any sense of responsibility for our own government. It's not that they can't name them that bugs me exactly, it's just that it's a symptom of the underlying apathy and short-sightedness that seems to have taken over our country. At that point people are, IMO, no longer citizens and are simply sheep, grazing on whatever is fed to them as long as it doesn't disrupt their "day-to-day lives." We all have a duty to be informed.