Must Read: Romancing the Resistance.
I’ve come to the harsh realization that persuasion or evidence no longer factors into decisions about what people will muster to support and defend. Those have been replaced by a moral substitution process operating inside a system of incentivized unreality—one in which believing the right thing matters far more than believing the true thing— that sustains political belief today and facts cannot penetrate.
It seems a certain class of young and middle aged females are especially susceptible to romanticized resistance based on incentivized unreality.
Illegal immigration exposes this because it is legally binary. Either a person entered the United States lawfully or they did not. Either a visa was honored or it was overstayed. Government failure to enforce the law does not alter the law’s existence, yet protests, riots, and mass moral theatrics have erupted across the country defending people whose only distinguishing feature, legally speaking, is that they violated immigration statutes and are therefore subject to removal. The contradiction is not accidental. It is foundational.
Go read the whole thing.
The bit about replacing law by emotion has in the past been called by a different name, one that hides what's going on: "the Living Constitution".
It is exemplified by the likes of Sonia Sotomayor, who infamously spoke of bringing Latin feminine sensibility to her work on the Supreme Court.
another example of the dumbing down of America.. “educated” people ruled by emotion and feelings.. ie-adult sized toddlers..