Alright, but how much is an enforced ideology, and how much is the expression of like-minded mindset?
It's a complicated topic hard to discuss in detail, but let's try a simple analogy. Do you think it's a coincidence that the Soviet citizens on their own adopted Soviet principles, and the Chinese people on their own adopt CCP principles, and people in red states and families and communities tend to adopt Republican principles, and people in clue states, families, communities are more likely to adopt those principles?
That's not my answer, it's just a foundation for my point - the Federalist Society uses a combination of indoctrination, rewards, networking, to seduce people who, exposed over and over, encouraged over and over and over, to hear and consider and perhaps adopt a prepared ideology that's been designed in a war on the constitution, that some of them adopt it as their views, and from that pool get selected?
And then you'd have to show why in a life-time appointment, a Justice would display this fealty when there is no longer a reason to do so?
I feel like I'm having to repeat basic things, like the word "groomed". A person might be groomed for a decade, 'hey come to a Federalist Society meeting', and get exposed, and learn how much they can gain from joining in, and come to adopt the views and thrive in the Federalist community. Over years and years, the come to identify as being on a 'team' with certain views, and having adversaries who oppose them.
When they're groomed by the Federalist Society and adopt the ideologies, they aren't serving like corrupt crooks paid to rule wrongly knowingly, who when put on the court are freed to stop doing the wrong thing; by that point it who they are, who they have been groomed to be, with ongoing reinforcement for 'their side' against their enemies.
By analogy, let's look at Libertarians. At some point someone might find something attractive about Libertarianism (there's an old saying that everyone likes something about Libertarianism). And then they decide to learn more about it, and they read books and join groups and regularly talk to other Libertarians, who reinforce their views, of why they're right and others are wrong.
The difference is, most of those people get to that point organically, 'honestly', however 'right or wrong' the views. But the Federalist Society is not organic or innocent or honest. It pretends to be, but it has an ideology hugely valued with billions of dollars behind it to recruit, develop, manufacture a legal army with a pre-determined set of legal ideologies which are designed for the purpose of defeating the constitution to benefit rich interests.
This is why it's hard for people to understand, the difference between such powerful grooming and people just having views, it's hard to think of Supreme Court Justices not understanding this and seeing through it. Then look at, say, Tom Cruise. Think the grooming he volunteered for had any effect? He's a supporters and defender of Scientology a bit like Federalist members support an ideology, without the big money recruiting him to it.
It's more subtle - people because of networking have a lot of job opportunities with Federalist members IF and only if they have the right views. So they get a job from a Federalist member - and are expected to do the same, to prefer other Federalist members for jobs they can give. And so it goes, networking all the way to the Supreme Court and the president. It's very effective.
All they while, they're 'on a team' of 'like-minded individuals' reinforcing each others' views, helping each other, fighting to get jobs for their team over others who they want to defeat, to get their legal ideology adopted instead of other ideologies. As I said, it's hard to justice but hopefully you get some idea. And again, add billions to push a PARTICULAR ideology.
