Yeah, man. Yeah. ... yep :(. I won't go so far as to say we get the media we "deserve," because nobody deserves this crap. But we get the media we "want." Or white people want, at least. Because people vote with their eyeballs and the least common demoninator eyeballs reward... crap.

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In any event, I actually answer your four questions similar to how you do yourself. I just think that the *aggreed upon downsides* are not really downsides, when understood properly. It's not a "so what" answer. It's a "no, actually this might be better" answer.

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if people do not like a 200, or 300, or whatever person Supreme Court, supported by 1,000 memeber lower courts, then, perhaps, the judicary could be taught to MIND THEIR OWN BUSINESS and rid us of their unelected supremacy. So, no race to the bottom. Just democracy, *by any means necessary.*

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I disagree, categorically, that adding additional justices, even in a "tit-for-tat" way, is a "race to the bottom." I think having a great many *more* judges is actually good for democracy, representation, ethics, and limiting the importance and power of any individual judge. Furthermore...

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11yo: I scored a TD in flag football. Me: NO SHIT. 11yo: Really Me: You're messing with me. 11yo: No really. See, because I'm really bad at football, nobody actually guards me. So the QB took advantage of that, since they knew I could catch. I caught the ball and nobody was around me and I scored :)

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