Seeing in the Dark

"I was not born to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion." Henry David Thoreau

Why are Thomas & Coney Barrett in love with an interpretation of the Constitution that didn't include them in the proposition of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness? Why are they so intent upon an interpretation of that document that would see Thomas on an auction block and Comey Barrett stuck in a kitchen somewhere without the franchise?

This Originalism crap seems to me to be a fast-moving slide of hand, a way of stripping people of their rights, their lives and their futures while hiding behind a bunch of lofty sounding legal gibberish that has no real meaning, only an agenda. It seems to me that this particular shell game involves using the Constitution as a bludgeon against the people it was designed to serve. No one will convince me that Jefferson and the boys intended their work to be cast in granite and impervious to the heat and friction of the rushing waves of history and progress.

Thomas and Comey Barrett remind me of the people who collaborated with the Nazis. They are aiding and abetting the creation of a world in which they will have no meaning or value, and hoping for a special dispensation, as the Catholics say, for betraying their fellow citizens.

Perhaps I am getting old and stupid, but it doesn't make any sense to me, unless the object is to create a theocracy - one of the most brutal forms of tyranny. The divine right of rulers for the rich, and the obligation to suffer and serve for everyone else because hell is waiting for those who don't accept the tenants of the "faith." In such a world Christ would carry an automatic weapon, and compassion would be strictly forbidden, by law or scripture whichever came first.

I am not a particularly cheerful person as most of you know. I am not a glass half full type of dame. No, I see extremely well in the dark, and its real hard to slip a shadow past me.

The five Conservative people on this bloody Supreme Court are casting a shadow of tyranny over the American people. Their regressive interpretation of the law will take us all back to a world where most of us weren't welcome.

In the short-term defiance of their directives is a moral imperative. In the long-term checking their power with term limits and an expansion of the court must be a prime demand on our elected officials.  In short, they need to be made irrelevant, because they have undermined their own credibility to such a point as to not deserve the respect or obedience of the American people.

This is the year to pay attention. This is the year to put down your Botox, your beer and forget whatever the hell your favorite reality TV stars are up to. This is the year to begin a house cleaning that will put power back in the hands of the majority where it belongs.