Lawyers
elected to the modern Presidency may have select common behavioral
characteristics. As actors they may represent hidden special
interests. As mouthpieces they may be puppets of plutonomy or foreign
interests. Most apparent though is their readiness to usurp the role
of the Legislative branch in making law wherever possible-since as
lawyers they regard law as a malleable substance to be finessed and
applied as executive of it in the most advantageous manner possible.
There
is a danger that a lawyer-President may find common cause with the
lawyer-Supreme Court to form a corrupt ad hoc alliance in knocking
down the legislature. It is as if Wall Street interests ran the
treasury, commerce and the Federal Reserve too. Laws and
constitutional theory may be bent with plain power. V.I. Lenin was a
lawyer, like Bill Clinton, Barrack Hussein Obama and Vladimir Putin;
lawyers in some cases benefit a society with a more authoritarian or
imperial approach to the office of the Presidency. That approach is
fundamentally less than democratic however and a mistake is it to
regard populist authoritarianism as a good example of democracy.
As
a lawyer F.D.R. wanted to change the number of lawyer-judges on the
Supreme Court. President Obama has forced through several legal
changes generally without plain majority support. The judiciary gave
the President queer marriage. Obamacare was forced through by use of
the nuclear option that will have future consequences. The Democrats
of the Senate appear set to force through a dangerous end of
sanctions on Iran in exchange for Iran willing to be slower and more
thorough in developing a nuclear weapons program over the next 15
years. For a lawyer President the law may be a kind of putty shaped
as any kind of charge they like rather than a practico-inert
substance of rules. It is true that laws need be changed now and then
yet it is the legislature that is supposed to do that-not the chief
law enforcement officer.
It
is bad development to place lawyers in the White House. haven't
Democrats got a single competent Hollywood Star to run for the job if
they want at least to seem interesting and less corrupt?
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