• killeronthecorner@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I always thought it was pretty far out for a contemporary democracy to have lifelong appointments with the word “supreme” in the title.

    In the rest of the world this usually indicates something well divorced from democracy.

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        1 year ago

        How much of that life expectancy was infant mortality? Or preventable diseases that didn’t affect the upper class people who would get lifetime appointments?

        But I think the idea was to have an impartial third party that was unaffected by political maneuvering necessary for near constant elections.

        Unfortunately it hasn’t worked out for us so much lately.