by thegreekdog on Wed Jun 27, 2018 8:10 pm
I don't want a conservative Supreme Court (or a liberal Supreme Court). I want a Supreme Court that will interpret and rule on legislation based upon what is written in the Constitution. I do not want a Supreme Court that will do f*ck all because a particular justice thinks that's what should happen. It just so happens that strict constructionist justices tend to be conservative and activist justices tend to be liberal. For example, Clarence Thomas, in my opinion, is the best; better than Scalia. Gorusch is a close second. Sotomayor is the worst. I don't agree with Trump's executive order at all. But it's certainly something that he has the power to do (and yes, President Obama did the same thing). If you want to change that policy, Congress needs to pass a law and you need to hold accountable any president, no matter the party, for what you think is an overreach. I think unions are great, but I also think that people shouldn't be required to join unions or pay union dues as that clearly violates the First Amendment. If you want to change those things, change the Constitution. If you want those things to change, don't just decide that the Supreme Court should change them just because they can. You might as well call the Supreme Court the "Third Legislature" if that's what you're going to do.
What I'm scared of is hypocritical and abhorrent liberal propaganda and "terrorism" becoming more frequent. I'm scared of Scalise situations. I'm scared of people sitting outside Republicans houses yelling at them all night. I'm scared of Occupy Wall Street preventing me from getting to work. I'm scared of the moron that won the primary in New York yesterday who appears to be a socialist. I'm scared that more and more people will continue to equate Republicans with Nazis and the United States with Handmaid's Tale. I'm scared that the media and Hollywood will continue to spout nonsense propaganda to young people. I'm scared that universities will continue to teach that censorship is okay and that if someone doesn't agree with you that makes them racist, homophobic, transphobic, privileged, or some other insult which reinforces that intellectual debate is not something one should have to engage in. Since President Obama was elected, I've seen both the red team and the blue team get more and more fringey and less intellectually honest. The Tea Party became a racist, xenophobic stronghold rather than a small government one. Conservative news media went from Rush Limbaugh to Steve Bannon in eight years, becoming more gross. Liberals became more likely to shout "racist" when you disagreed with the president and now have become obsessed with linking anything they disagree with to racism or Nazism. Seriously, just go read Twitter for an hour; just read the people with blue check marks. This is what the future of information's going to be. Scares the shit out of me.
Anyway, that's what I'm scared of.
