Why The "Originalists" On The Supreme Court Will Ratify An Oligarchy With Democratic Window-Dressing

"How Wealth Rules The World"

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2020/01/how-wealth-rules-world.html

I am certainly no constitutional scholar.

But influenced by a book my brother-in-law recently gave me - “How Wealth Rules The World" - I now see the American Constitution as a fundamentally oligarchic document with democratic window-dressing.

When Amy Connie Barrett tips the balance of the court in the direction  of so-called “originalism,” I think the newly-established court (which is set to rule for somewhere between 20 and 30 years) will find in the “original” constitution complete justification of oligarchy. 

And since American conservatives are obsessed with power (and their sole possession of it), I can see them being brazen enough to start treating any kind of derivative democratic governance as completely dependent on the will of the oligarchs. 

Of course, it has always been this way. 

But now the cat is out of the bag and we can no longer act in accordance with the "original" fiction which was designed for "popular consumption."

The oligarchs have always known they run the show - and that the constitution "has their backs."

Toto has pulled back the curtain on the Wizard of Oz.  

And there is simply no going back to pretending that the wizard is what he always pretended to be.

So, rather than allowing people to have real democratic governance —- rather than their customary showcase democracy — the newly devised “oligarchic” court will appeal to the oligarchic core of the constitution and turn democracy in the United States into what monarchy is in England - a quaint bit of ancient history gussied up with lots of pomp, circumstance and ceremony.

... but functionally gelded.