Precedence

Precedence; is what every mother and father historically tried to warn us about and like all children we couldn't see the forest because of all the trees. In simpler terms the word precedence as expressed in today's social experience means the absence of what used to be called reasoning or common sense.
Our parents repeatedly told us that just because others choose a different path w/ “just because Johnny jumped off the bridge doesn't mean we should necessarily do like wise” was the wisest way or thing to adhere to.
The legal and or political aspects of American society have adopted the idea that if some ignorant or even stupid act or illegality is set as precedence, reasoning the of such is out of bounds, based solely on how long the ignorance or stupidity held sway over society.
The first President, Congressman/Woman, Senators or Judge that knowingly agreed to something unconstitutional set the precedence that all succeeding ones cite. This is the nuanced way of breaking with the past precedence set, by constitutional law, by setting a new precedence bit by bit little by little which defines insidiousness, where original precedence is reset by modern precedence. This of coarse makes the word precedence meaningless, when the original precedence was set by deliberate reasoning of the human mind and modern precedence is set for transient and subjective purposes, completely unrelated and at cross purposes to the original precedence set.
All of this raises the question of intelligence verses the ignorance that is so prevalent in modern law and jurisprudence and American government.
I know America has some intelligent men and women, but they appear to be short on insight when they allow themselves to be sidetracked by the minutiae of the issues that stare them in the face on a day to day year by year basis totally obscuring the obvious inversion of America's original constitutional laws and the culture that once was unique in the world but has yet to reveal its latency.
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