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To: Oeconomicus who wrote (9261)	12/20/2010 2:02:15 PM
From: koan	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 10087

I already regret taking the time to answer your acerbic question-lol. First, existential law means, instead of follow mythical legal logic, at the very root, law is what the powerful say it is. That would be considered existential as the law is really individual subjective reality at its core and not some objective logic. Look at all the 5/4 decisions. The perfect example is when the supreme court decided the 2000 election. They did so (stopped the vote) just as the vote was within 100 votes of going into Gore's favor. Everyone knows they would not have done that if the reverse were true i.e. if the vote was about to go into bush's column. Story has it John Roberts told the Republicans: "we can get away with it" and so Scalia led the charge and sure enough no one challenged them and bush went on to make Roberts chief Justice. And since then they have passed the citizens united ruling over turning 100 years of settled law. So much for conservatives not liking activist judges. When did we start noticing the divide in liberala and conservative. How about when the Republicans threw out every single liberal and most moderates and now the congress is more divided than it has ever been and I predict will stay that way; because we all now know we are two sub species of people liberals and conservatives. Why every talk show gets a liberal to balance a conservative and vice versa, except FOX that just mostly sticks with right wingers for propaganda reasons.. <<I may regret this, but what, pray tell, do you mean by "the law is ... existential"? That it depends upon experience rather than reason, perhaps? How is this a secret at all, much less a "dirty little" one? What is the illusion here that you think "has [now] been uncovered" and how will it "prove a great stress on our democracy"?>>