{"id":38,"date":"2026-05-22T22:39:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T22:39:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaslivingmedia.com\/?p=38"},"modified":"2026-05-22T22:39:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T22:39:10","slug":"the-american-revolution-was-a-mistake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaslivingmedia.com\/?p=38","title":{"rendered":"The American Revolution Was a Mistake"},"content":{"rendered":"<article>\n<p>The editorial board of Jeff Bezos\u2019s <em>Washington Post<\/em> dedicated an entire editorial over the weekend to criticizing Supreme Court reform and expansion. The piece is titled \u201cThe Court Packing Comeback,\u201d which might make you think it will offer a balanced look at the surging popularity of court-expansion proposals, but the URL tells you what the editorial board is really after. It reads: \u201ckamala-harriss-mindless-flirtation-with-court-packing.\u201d The article isn\u2019t really about Harris, beyond the fact that she recently said that there are \u201cno bad ideas\u201d when it comes to court reform. The fact that the editorial board used that offhand comment to go full sexism\u2014Why is Harris\u2019s statement \u201cmindless\u201d? How is she \u201cflirting\u201d?\u2014tells me they\u2019re scared that court reform is gaining in popularity.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/atlaslivingmedia.com\/?p=36\">Why the Park Slope Food Coop\u2019s BDS Battle Is So Important<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Beyond this base and gross sexism, the editorial board marshals, dare I say, <em>mindless<\/em> tripe to defend the current court set-up. Here\u2019s the basic premise: \u201cNo matter how much someone disagrees with recent decisions by the high court, threatening to subordinate judicial independence to the whims of a political party befits a banana republic. Turning the court into a partisan plaything would destroy one of America\u2019s strongest bulwarks against tyranny.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s do a close read:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u201cNo matter how much someone disagrees\u201d is a phrase intended to minimize the horror of the Supreme Court\u2019s recent decisions. I will stipulate that for your average cis-hetero white <em>Washington Post<\/em> editorial writer, the court\u2019s decisions are, at worst, disagreeable. But for many of us, these decisions are matters of life and death. They certainly are for the trans people the Supreme Court is trying to erase. And for the women who live in states where their lives cease to matter the second they get pregnant. And while political representation is not necessarily a life-or-death issue, the demolition of the Voting Rights Act and the right of Black people to participate equally in the process of democratic self-government cannot be dismissed as a mere matter of disagreement.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cThreatening to subordinate judicial independence to the whims of a political party befits a banana republic.\u201dFirst of all, the current court is subject to the whims of a political party, the Republican Party. The <em>Post<\/em>\u2019s editorial writers just happen to like it that way. And second, most functional democracies have high courts that are far less powerful than ours. Having nine unelected judges-for-life determine which laws we\u2019re allowed to have is antidemocratic. Actual republics, banana or otherwise, do not cede the functions of democracy to unaccountable people with lifetime appointments.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cTurning the court into a partisan plaything\u201d is what Senator Mitch McConnell did. Court reform is a way to <em>undo<\/em> that, thanks for asking.<\/li>\n<li>\u201c[O]ne of America\u2019s strongest bulwarks against tyranny.\u201d Is it, though? Is the Supreme Court a \u201cbulwark\u201d against tyranny? From where I sit, I see a litany of examples of American tyranny that were supported by the court. Slavery, segregation, internment of Japanese Americans\u2014all of these atrocities came with the Supreme Court\u2019s stamp of approval. Police violence, gun violence, and ecological destruction all flourish in this country <em>because<\/em> of what the Supreme Court has allowed. More often than not, the Supreme Court is a bulwark against <em>progress<\/em>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>After this inauspicious set-up, the editorial goes on to make all the usual arguments against court reform: It decries \u201ctribalism,\u201d agonizes about the possibility of tit-for-tat expansion, and recasts Franklin D. Roosevelt\u2019s attempt at court-packing as a \u201cfailure,\u201d even though the mere threat of it helped FDR get his New Deal policies through a hostile Supreme Court.<\/p>\n<p>It all boils down to this: The<em> Washington Post<\/em> editorial board thinks the current Supreme Court is working just fine and doesn\u2019t want anybody to change it. And they\u2019re not wholly wrong about the first part: The current Supreme Court <em>is<\/em> working just fine\u2014for <em>The Washington Post<\/em> and the moneyed interests it now represents.<\/p>\n<p>So let me put it like this: If Jeff Bezos doesn\u2019t want the Supreme Court to be reformed, that should be a sufficient reason for the rest of us to be in favor of it.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Bad and the Ugly<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Department of Justice has filed an indictment against Ra\u00fal Castro, former president of Cuba, over the downing of civilian airplanes over international waters while he was defense secretary. The indictment is the usual \u201clawfare\u201d the Trump administration carries out against non-whites the world over, but I want Democrats to notice something: Castro is being indicted for an event that took place when he was the defense minister. If Trump can do that to Castro, our defense secretary, other countries can certainly indict Pete Hegseth for his war crimes. Hegseth shouldn\u2019t be able to step foot outside this country without winding up in The Hague for the rest of his life.<\/li>\n<li>Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche continued his <em>Better Call Saul<\/em> impression this week when he apparently lied, under oath, about meeting with victims of Jeffrey Epstein. (He claimed he did, when he absolutely did not.) Blanche is another Trumper who should be prosecuted for his crimes when this is all over. I hope Jack Smith is keeping a list.<\/li>\n<li>Twenty-five states and the District of Columbia sued the Department of Education for new restrictions it placed on loans for students attending professional schools. It appears Linda McMahon doesn\u2019t think we need nurses. As clear as I can tell, McMahon hasn\u2019t committed any crimes, so instead of prosecuting her I vote to set her adrift\u2014put her on an ice floe while her students assure her that climate change isn\u2019t real and she should be fine\u2014when she is out of power.<\/li>\n<li>Jeff Bezos thinks that the bottom 50 percent of wage earners shouldn\u2019t pay any taxes. I think Jeff Bezos should pay his workers a living wage. We are not the same.<\/li>\n<li>Waymo, the driverless taxi company, suspended service in Atlanta because its cars don\u2019t know how to deal with flooding. A similar thing recently happened in San Antonio, and the company has also issued a general recall because its taxis keep driving into water. The idea of AI being flummoxed by the very climate change AI is helping stoke feels like a plot point in a Michael Crichton novel.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Inspired Takes<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>For <em>The Nation<\/em>, Kali Holloway dives into the new trend among always-online white supremacists: livestreaming their harassment of Black people with racial slurs and insults while threatening to shoot them. Holloway rightly points out that, while some people will see this as a new evil brought about by social media, Black people know this is an old evil brought about by white supremacy.<\/li>\n<li>Speaking of undesirable men, there\u2019s a really interesting article from <em>Planet Money<\/em> about how there\u2019s a shortage of economically stable men in today\u2019s \u201cmarriage market.\u201d It details how college-educated women are marrying men who lack a college education but are nonetheless doing well for themselves, leaving almost nothing left over for women without a college education who are increasingly choosing to parent on their own.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Not gonna lie, the \u201cmarriage market\u201d article sent me down a rabbit hole and, well, I ended up at <em>Playboy<\/em>\u2014just for the articles, I swear! The piece that caught my attention was fascinating because it explored the case of undesirable <em>rich<\/em> men. It concluded that billionaires are so interpersonally odious as to be \u201cunfuckable,\u201d with the result that only rich women who are used to and complicit in their odious behavior want to have sex with them. These two articles led me to conclude that \u201cnice guys\u201d do not actually \u201cfinish last\u201d (my editor points out that this is because guys, in general, rarely finish last) and the obsession with the \u201cmale loneliness epidemic\u201d is just about granting victimhood status to assholes.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Worst Argument of the Week<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, the Democratic National Committee released its \u201cautopsy\u201d of the 2024 election\u2014but don\u2019t get too excited: The DNC has its head so far up its ass that we now need an autopsy for the autopsy. DNC Chair Ken Martin initially said he wasn\u2019t going to release the report, then changed course as people, including Kamala Harris herself, demanded its release. Then, it released a report that was full of errors\u2014like, it literally gets people\u2019s names and positions wrong and cites figures that are provably incorrect.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to the report, Martin put out a statement. This paragraph stings:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>I am not proud of this product; it does not meet my standards, and it won\u2019t meet your standards. I don\u2019t endorse what\u2019s in this report, or what\u2019s left out of it. I could not in good faith put the DNC\u2019s stamp of approval on it. But transparency is paramount. So, today I am releasing the report as I received it\u2014in its entirety, unedited and unabridged\u2014with annotations for claims that couldn\u2019t be verified.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>It\u2019s the most \u201cI\u2019m not a member of an organized political party\u2014I\u2019m a Democrat\u201d moment we\u2019ve encountered in a while.<\/p>\n<p>I could end this week\u2019s \u201cworst argument\u201d section here. Martin\u2019s \u201cI put out a shambolic report riddled with errors that I am not proud of\u201d is a terrible look. So, for that matter, is \u201cKen Martin should be the head of the DNC.\u201d Martin is so obviously bad at his job that he should be playing for the Mets.<\/p>\n<p>Still, I\u2019m not going to end this section on Martin, because there is one thing that\u2019s even worse about the DNC report\u2014and that is what is <em>not<\/em> in it: any mention of Gaza. Somehow, the Democratic Party did a 192-page review of what went wrong in 2024, and its response to the genocide in Gaza didn\u2019t rate a single mention.<\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t know how you do that. I mean, I guess I do know because I know how cowardice and complicity translate into better jobs and power within the Democratic Party. But even for an establishment from which I expect so little, the decision to ignore Gaza really shocks the conscience.<\/p>\n<p>This report gives me no hope for the future. How can the party learn lessons when it won\u2019t even acknowledge facts?<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/atlaslivingmedia.com\/?p=34\">Why Losing Colbert Hurts So Much<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m not normally one of the guys who thinks that the Democratic Party needs to be burned to the ground so that we might build something better from its ashes. But in moments like these, it\u2019s hard for me to argue that anything could be <em>worse<\/em> than the current Democrats.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026Except, of course, for the current Republicans.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What I Wrote<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Did you hear about the $1.8 billion white-grievance slush fund Trump created? I wrote about it. And I also urged Democrats to use it as a model for future reparations to those who have been victimized by the Trump regime.<\/p>\n<p><strong>In News Unrelated to the Current Chaos<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I finally got around to watching the Ken Burns documentary <em>The American Revolution<\/em>, which came out in November. I had been avoiding it because, while I love Burns\u2019s work, I wasn\u2019t in the mood for a hagiography of this country\u2019s founders. I\u2019ve watched every one of his films, multiple times, and I know how he deals with atrocities. I don\u2019t think it\u2019s fair to say he sanitizes or whitewashes them, but he tends to put them off to the side. In his series <em>The Vietnam War<\/em>, for instance, My Lai gets about as much screen time as Jane Fonda. In his World War II documentary, <em>The War<\/em>, the Holocaust doesn\u2019t <em>happen<\/em> until American troops are pushing into Germany.<\/p>\n<p>I understand this style of filmmaking: He\u2019s trying to tell a story from 30,000 feet, and focusing too granularly on the atrocities would overpower the rest of the narrative. You shouldn\u2019t watch his Civil War documentary for a historical account of American chattel slavery; that\u2019s not the point of that show. And, in fairness, you don\u2019t need to understand slavery to understand how Robert E. Lee screwed up at Gettysburg.<\/p>\n<p>Still, despite my initial reluctance, I finally watched the American Revolution series because, as we hurtle toward the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, I wanted to refamiliarize myself with what most people have been taught. The American Revolution was, to my mind, one of the most hypocritical wars ever fought. It saw slaveholding whites demanding their natural rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness while running an economy based on human bondage\u2014and poor, landless whites fighting so that they might one day steal land from Native Americans. The level of intellectual dishonesty at the heart of the project is something I\u2019ve been aware of since I was old enough to memorize the dates of the battles.<\/p>\n<p>The film does surface all of these hypocrisies. It rightly characterizes George Washington as an inveterate slaveholder and Indian killer\u2014and also the only person holding the revolutionary army (and thus the entire fledgling country) together. But, as I feared, it also largely lets the founders off the hook. Their disgusting treatment of enslaved Africans and Indigenous Americans is a side plot in the larger story about fighting the British.<\/p>\n<p>Those Brits, however, get an interesting treatment in this film. I consider myself pretty knowledgeable about the United States\u2019s founding, but I don\u2019t think I\u2019ve been exposed to a more evenhanded treatment of the British perspective during the Revolutionary War. Burns was able to show me how the British thought about the uprising, and how the 13 colonies were, to their mind, small potatoes, compared to their incredibly lucrative slave-powered colonies in the Caribbean.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s hard to imagine that Black people and Native Americans would have been better off if the British had won the war, but there\u2019s no way they would have been <em>worse<\/em> off. The founding generation had an insatiable appetite for land\u2014and for the enslaved people to work those lands. Once they were freed from England\u2019s shackles, they unleashed a terror of genocide and suffering across the entire continent.<\/p>\n<p>All of which is to say, I left the documentary as I leave any contact with the history of the United States\u2019s founding: firm in my belief that calcifying American constitutional law in the \u201coriginal intent\u201d of these slack-jawed, slaveholding, racist, sexist, genocidal, backwoods mouthbreathers is stupid. I reject orignalism in its entirety.<\/p>\n<p>***<\/p>\n<p><em>If you enjoyed this installment of\u00a0<\/em>Elie v. 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