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Before this millenia I never really thought about the courts and judges as doing things based on political philosophy. Like they were influence by it but not so far as to just ignore presidence and just twist written laws and the constitution.
I mean it was always thus. Back before it was "political" whether Venezuelans had any right to due process, it was "political" whether black people were people or property, or whether someone who was a socialist was allowed to run for president. It's always been a little bit of a shit-show. We're currently in an unusually shit-show time, but it's not a new problem.
People are just assholes sometimes, which is why there's so much mistrust built into the American system for the ones currently in charge of the operation.
that stuff is pretty far back though. It seemed in a good place before the millenium.
Not that many generations far back. It takes several generations for changes to soak in, and that's before taking into account globalization with conflicting world views.