As the Political World Turns

In Washington DC, President Trump announced his nominee to replace Ruth Bader Ginsberg as an Associate Justice on the United States Supreme Court.  We can expect the next month to be filled with the vilification of the candidate as a human being, not because she is a despicable human being, but because she is President Trump’s choice and the opposition has demonstrated that to be their only weapon.

Of course, to mobilize their followers we can expect the fear card to be played by each talking head on television who owes their livelihood to the DNC.  We’ve already begun to see those attacks, but apparently, there is a writer’s strike because none of them seem to be new and original.  For example, they are dragging out the old “Handmaiden’s Tail” costumes they used so unsuccessfully to demonstrate conservative women can’t think for themselves.  Then, remarkably, they are attacking her beliefs in the Roman Catholic faith. 

I find this hysterical for those who hold John F. Kennedy as a god.  Probably most of the people on television or in the media aren’t old enough to remember when Kennedy was attacked for his faith and had to give a speech about not listening to the Pope for guidance.  I think George Santayana had some thoughts about history repeating itself.

The biggest fear card the left will play is the absolute conviction the 1973 decision on Roe v. Wade will be completely overturned and women will once more be forced into back street abortions by sleazy doctors who’ve lost their licenses due to their drug addictions and marriage problems.  The only real issue here is there is not one decision that needs to be reconsidered, but at least four, but when have facts ever weighted in with the need to instill fear among those too uninterested to know the facts.  If facts were important, we would talk about the disproportionate number of African-American abortions compared to the whites.  We would consider the real reason Planned Parenthood locates its abortion centers in black neighborhoods.  We would ask why the government should fund this elective surgery, or why we don’t care when life is a life?

The left, it seems to me, is all about causes.  “Black Lives Matter,” but only certain black lives (from all appearances only the lives of those who turn to a life of crime).  Women’s rights matter, but only women who agree with the political agenda of the cause.  Not those who might see life in a different vain.  The “Me Too” movement was all about acknowledging the violence of men against women, but again we see it is only about becoming a tool to vilify certain men the cause may disagree with.  In the end, it is not about protecting women from rapists, it’s about using women just in a different manner than rapists.

In our current climate (and perhaps it was always this way), politicians can never admit they were wrong, but if they could, I wonder how many of the Democrats in the Senate in 2013 had wished Harry Reid hadn’t been so arrogant as to abolish the long-standing process for judicial advice and consent? 

It was that decision that has opened the door for Justice Barrett’s confirmation.  I was sorry to see the tradition abolished in 2013, but forcing the party to live with its choices, especially in an age where we don’t accept personal responsibility for anything seems fitting as we approach an election I think will shock the Democratic party to its core.