Yoshie:
> There is no socialist on the Supreme Court, so the division was
> basically liberals vs. conservatives at the court.
that's a major key of the problem with this country, reflecting the fact that effectively there are no socialists in Congress, either.
>... Is it any wonder American liberalism today, an ideology of
> technocrats, is not popular among Americans?
right. HRC seems a total technocrat.
> >what if eminent domain is employed by a democratically-controlled state?
> Kelo v. City of New London is an antithesis of eminent domain as it
> might be employed by a democratic state. It will regrettably make
> eminent domain used in the United States more of a tool of
> technocrats than it already has been.
my point was that the issue should not be "eminent domain" vs. "private property rights" but instead capitalism vs. socialist democracy. -- Jim Devine "Segui il tuo corso, e lascia dir le genti." (Go your own way and let people talk.) -- Karl, paraphrasing Dante.