Week In Review Jan 10 -14th
Was the SCOTUS ruling truly a win?
Greetings!
It’s been an eventful week hasn’t it?
After all the illegal Biden mandate was overturned which is a big deal. But as I argue in one of the articles I don’t think enough was done to stop executive agencies from issuing another mandate in the future under similar circumstances.
The court could have addressed this by asking the big question -- did Congress ever really delegate powers to agencies like OSHA? I don’t think so. When did Congress sign legislation that cleary says, for instance, that OSHA can throw around mandates that affect millions? The answer of course is never. That never happened.
So while the Court has given the appearance it has sided with freedom today, in the long run they’ve still allowed these agencies to restrict our freedom at a late date. Something must eventually be done here.
In another article I discussed the cliches politicians toss around while campaigning. These cliches, like most cliches, are pathetic and the public shouldn’t stand for them. In fact as both casual and professional observers of politics we should, with great vigilance, demand more from our candidates. For it is absolutely insufferable, and a shame to the citizens of our commonwealth, that so many candidates prance around spouting nothing more than empty truisms. In the article I discussed a few that are particularly common and should be done away with immediately.
From there we ventured into discussing CRT. CRT is a religion -- one with the conceptual equivalent of heaven and hell from people claiming to be “post religious.” Yeah right. CRT is a religion of despair straight from the empty heart of nihilistic radicals. That’s why they believe in utopia -- only an imaginary utopia can bring momentary relief from the resentment and envy that lives in the socialist heart. Just as this false utopia, however, brings relief it also incites more envy and more anger because of how short actual reality falls from this mental paradise. We discuss this in more detail in the article.
Lastly to begin the week we discussed the need for republican restraint on democracy. Without out it the mob always gets this way -- and the best elements of democracy including participation, citizen input, and camaraderie are gradually whittled away when these restraints don’t exist. Democrats, however, usually aren’t aware of this fact because of their sloppy or non-existent theorizing. The article on the subject serves as a corrective to this inadequacy.
As for PA politics it’s been interesting to witness the shifting tides in the gubernatorial race. It has been revealed that self-anointed front-runner Lou Barletta is slipping at least according to the poll results of the GOP Central PA caucus. Those results revealed that one other candidate is more popular -- at least amongst the caucus goers. I’m not convinced that the caucus goers’ perspective really serves as much of a bellwether given that most, if not all, have some stake or vested interest in the eventual winner. I guess we’ll see how this plays out but I wouldn’t take it as gospel that the winner of the caucus polls will win the primary.
So that’s all we have this week!
Except for one thing…
We have a new show launching starting today!
Tune into my new weekly show starting today from 12-1PM on Twitter, Facebook Live, and Youtube by searching Zigmund Reichenbach at any of those channels. We will air each and every Sunday at the same time so stay tuned!
We look forward to seeing you then!
Sincerely,
Zig
Article Recap:
Jan 10th — Republican Restraint on Democracy
Jan 11th — No post — ill
Jan 12th — Critical Rage Theory
Jan 13th — Assessing Political Candidates — Use of Unhelpful Terminology
Jan 14th — #Blocked: Biden’s Illegal Vax Mandate and the Big Win… That Wasn’t
Zigmund Reichenbach holds a M.A. in Philosophy from West Chester University. You can find him commenting on news stories of national and state interest at his Facebook page Zigmund Reichenbach -- Commentator or you can follow him on Twitter @zreichenbach1. To support the creation of articles like these visit our Patreon here.