Injustice Prevails
I’m going to say something that I don’t want to say and
something that more and more people will not want to hear.
Barring some kind of last-minute earth-shattering
revelation, such as treason, the United States Senate will confirm Judge Brett Kavanaugh
to be the next justice of the United States Supreme Court. It will probably be a close vote, clearly
along party lines, but it will happen nonetheless.
I don’t want that to happen, but it will.
I don’t want him on the Supreme Court for the very reason
why our narcissist President Trump picked him in the first place… because
Kavanaugh thinks – or at least implies - that
the President is untouchable.
As a practical libertarian, that stance automatically disqualifies him
in my eyes. Everything else about the
man, including the allegations he
sexually assaulted a young woman when he was 17, just reinforces why
he shouldn’t be sitting on the highest court in America. And, believe me, there
is a lot more about him that is just plain wrong besides what he did
in a cushy elite prep school.
But it is how this whole thing is being carried out that
really disgusts me. I’m talking about
how the conservatives, the Trumpets, the propagandists, and especially the
members of the United State Senate, are behaving when it comes to this whole
process.
Now I can understand why Trump is acting the way he is. He is an impudent narcissist with the
patience of a small child in a Wal-Mart.
He wants what he wants, and he wants it yesterday. And if someone like Kavanaugh will kiss his ass
and suck up to him, then Trump will treat that person as though he was an Old
Testament judge appointed by God almighty.
We saw this with his blind support of the disreputable, dishonorable,
and disgusting Roy Moore.
But it’s the actions of everyone else following Trump that serve
as a disgrace to the whole human race.
From the Senate Judiciary Committee, we have its chairman, Senator
Chuck Grassley, who so is seemingly obsessed with setting a land speed record
for approval that he doesn’t seem to care about finding the truth about what kind
of person they’re trying to confirm. He
appears to treat these new accusations like an inconvenience, as if the sole purpose
of the Senate is to rubber-stamp Trump’s selections through. If this is true, then he’s guilty of dereliction
of his duty as a member of the United States Senate, not to mention guilty of
gross incompetence. Then again, he is an
old man who is perhaps too senile to do his job.
Then we have all the people who would rather excuse the “youthful
indiscretions” of Kavanaugh and blame the victim for what happened... which
Kavanaugh himself is still denying ever happened.
So which is it? Is it
that he never did it, or is it that he did it but it’s “okay” because “boys
will be boys”? And if it is “boys will
be boys”, then you need to explain how the teenagers who took part in the
notorious “Central Park Wilding” incident of that same decade that were even
younger than Kavanaugh at the time and yet the call was for them to go to adult
prison for life for their supposed “youthful indiscretion”.
Even worse is the load of bull from people like former Florida
GOP wannabe Gina Sosa, who
actually asked “what boy hasn’t done this in high school?”
Really? You really
want to go to the misandry playbook of the late man-hater Andrea Dworkin? Really?
You *really* want to say that all men are rapists?
And this other load of bull about why the accuser didn’t report
it to the police... Remember William Kennedy Smith? 1991, accused of rape, the victim did report
it to the police, but, because he is white and rich and has connections, he was
acquitted. What sort of message did that
send rape victims then? The victim did everything
she was told to do, and yet her attacker got away with it.
Remember the Catholic Church and their problem with pedophile
priests? Nobody went to prison back then. The Church bought the silence of their many
victims and shuffled the pedo-priests around.
That problem never went away! It would
take decades before the perpetrators would even be criminally charged, if they
were still alive!
So, you want to try that one again?
“He never did it. It never happened. She’s lying.
And even if he did it, it didn’t matter because boys will be boys and we
can’t punish him for something he did when he was young and stupid, but it’s still
her fault if it did happen.”
*That* is what you are telling the world, conservatives!
That is what you are telling the world!
A goddamned hypocritical screed that is an embarrassment to the
whole human race. It flies in the face
of everything you claim to be all about.
Morality, responsibility, accountability... you have pissed that all
away. You have forfeited those
standards. And the fact that it is coming
from people with money and power and influence only makes it worse, because it
says people with those things can do any goddamned thing they want and never be
held to account for it.
There is one way that Kavanaugh could save some face at this
point, and that would be to own up to what he is accused of. Admit it, but then say that he learned from
it. But that would take courage and
character, two things I have yet to see from someone like him.
And yet, barring any kind of truly earth-shattering
revelation, the GOP will get away with it.
They will get Brett Kavanaugh confirmed to the Supreme Court, no matter
what he admits or denies, and no matter what anyone else says about him.
Because let’s get brutally honest here... this has
absolutely nothing at all to do with whether or not Brett Kavanaugh is
qualified or capable or even the right man to sit on the Supreme Court in
judgement over anything, never mind on judicial decisions that can change the nation. This has to do with one thing and one thing
only: power. Raw, naked, inexcusable, unchallengeable
partisan political power.
This is about a narcissist in the White House who
manipulated to have not just one, but two Justices on the Supreme Court. It is about a hypocritical hyperpartisan
political party that is exercising the same power to ram through two nominees
to the Supreme Court that they used to deny the previous President of the
United States to appoint his own nominee to that same court.
And, as much as it galls me and it galls an ever-increasing
number of Americans, they will get away with it.
This is a gross injustice that is decades in the
making. This is the molestation of a system
designed to ensure that the most qualified of people get a lifetime appointment
to the highest court in the country. A molestation
that the GOP will get away with just like the pedo-priests got away with their
actions. Why? Because they can. Because they have power and money and influence.
This is what you voted for, people. A corrupt political party of abuse, excuse,
and misogyny.
Or, as our narcissist president would call it... “Winning”. Tired of it yet?
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