Kennedy Retirement A Source of Sorrow For Liberals
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Buckle up gang, it’s gonna be a bumpy ride. I literally had a chill run up my spine as soon as I saw the news that Justice Kennedy had announced his retirement. This is not how it starts, folks. This is how Act II starts. Might be Act III, to be honest. I didn’t grab a program for this performance. But for those not paying attention, it’s time to wake up. All you “apolitical” people too. You might not like politics but this affects all of you either way.
Do we want to end up as the generation thought of like all those others that we think sat idly by and watched a once beautiful land of freedom and prosperity turn into a country that quotes religious scripture in justification for its laws? A demagoguery mixed with a kleptocracy, and a dash of theocracy for flavor? A country that concentrates on making one minority the scapegoat for all its problems? A country whose leader holds political rallies and has chanting supporters that openly threaten violence against anyone who says something not adoringly beautiful about them? A country that now has the biggest disparity of wealth in its history? A country governed by people who praise dictators, despise the press (only the negative press though), and withdraw us from the Human Rights Council? Add threatening to jail your political opponents or suggesting they be “taken care of” and I am not sure what else to call it.
The environment is no longer a priority in this administration’s eyes. Actions speak louder than words and these people aren’t even bothering to offer a defense because they’re getting the deck stacked and handed to them. Goodbye Mueller investigation, goodbye any chance ever of impeachment, goodbye 2020 election, goodbye Roe v Wade, goodbye right to birth control, goodbye Gay Marriage, goodbye Planned Parenthood, goodbye any environmental protections, goodbye Social Security. This administration just got a winning lottery ticket and with it, they’re gonna literally buy the entire wish list they’ve been compiling since the 50’s. That bygone era when everything was perfect and America meant something and everyone harkens back to as the golden era. Yeah, except for women, minorities, gays and lesbians, and whomever else looked like the people we as a nation we were shooting at that year.
Blue wave in November? Tsunami you say? I’ll believe it when I see it. This is not me being negative. This is me holding my feet to the fire as well and saying none of us are doing enough to stand up to this. You’d better grab as many people as you can to register to vote and then go pick them up on Election Day and shove them in that booth. Otherwise, a whole lotta people are going to be saying goodbye to something they’ve taken for granted for a while. Go volunteer for your local dog catcher’s election, school board members, etc. Get involved in some way or future generations are going to have the benefit of hindsight and we’re going to be held responsible for what happens next and our chapter in history will be entitled “How Did They Not See It Coming?”
If you got a chill at the news of Kennedy’s retirement, do something about it. If you didn’t, read up on why it’s important and what he stood for before he decided to step off the bench. It affects every single one of us whether we like it or not. Let’s not talk a big game and then get overly confident again. Let’s not be as divisive as we were the last elections and do the infighting thing, even though we’re extra good at it by now. Let’s show up in November and concentrate on the future of this country rather than who someone said they voted for last time or what sticker is on their bumper.
This is disastrous regardless of your side of the aisle because pretty soon if things don’t change, there’s only gonna be one aisle. And that ALWAYS works out well.
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Excellent article Josh. When I asked why the Democrats had no leader to take on Trump I was politely informed I didn’t understand US politics.
No,I dont. I don’t understand why there is no viable anti-Trump candidate already in place.
That’s why, in my view, you’re stuck with him for far longer than you could have been.
Well, maybe there’s time yet, but I tend to agree with you. I will avoid the cliche mentions of deck chairs and ocean liners, but the Democrats are too often a loose and uncomfortable confederation of people disaffected over their own rather narrow but passionate grievances and unwilling to compromise or cooperate. There are no moderates or centrists on either side, but the Right has most of the money. With the huge concentrations thereof, it’s never been easier to persuade the public that nothing is true, everything is the result of a conspiracy and it’s all someone else’s fault. What’s going up is really going down and what’s going down is Hillary’s fault, Obama’s fault, Nancy Pelosi’s fault or any one of the negative pantheon they invented for the purpose.
This emerging theocracy is what keeps me up at night more than anything else other than the collusion with tyrants.
I think that is the Democrats biggest problem. They’re too busy being passionate to stop and listen to those who they dismiss too readily for not sharing Democrat views entirely.
If they don’t start to it’s Trump Mark II next time.
Same in Blighty actually. Our ‘left’ have stopped listening hence a right Tory government can be a shambles and get away with it.
Ironic really. The left are the primary reason the right is rising.
You make a good point here Neil, and one I’ve been trying to make for years. No one listened and we got Trump.
Liberals are blaming Kennedy for having the audacity to retire, leaving them in the lurch. Fuck that. I’m not happy about it, but he doesn’t owe liberals anything. He’s a conservative, who, from time to time, voted with the liberals. That’s all.
Kennedy, although known as the “swing justice,” most often votes with the court’s conservatives: He is further to the right on law-and-order issues than Justice Antonin Scalia was, he is comfortable with the court’s protective view of business and he shared the losing view that the entire Affordable Care Act is unconstitutional. In addition, his belief that campaign finance regulation often violates free speech was exemplified in his writing of the opinion in Citizens United, which has opened the door for an explosion of big money in elections. His latest ruling was decidedly anti-union, and one that will cost labor unions millions in fees. He was the voice of reason among conservative members, however, when it came to striking down Roe Vs Wade, which will now be at great risk, along with any number of other social issues.