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I would like to have something intelligent and thoughtful and groundbreaking to say about Inustice Roberts, our soon to be Supreme Court Injustice replacement for Sandra Day O'Connor. I'm pretty sure it's all been said before, though. My biggest feeling is just dissapointment. Injustice O'Connor was a moderate conservative, whatever the hell that means. Her differing views from the straight party line of either of our two useless political parties was conforting though. She actually seemed to take time to have an opinion, instead of just parroting whatever her friends and associates agree on. Our esteemed Executive Moron could have at least tried to pretend that he would like to preserve what little goodness exists within our current system of government, but he obviously has no desire for that.
With all three branches of the government soon to be under republican control, there will be no room for any sort of democracy, the system we love to pretend that we believe in. One person, one vote, which has never truly existed in our system will become even farther from the truth. It will go even further down the path of $100 million, one vote. Corporations and lobbyists are spending money on supporting the nomination of Injustice Roberts than has ever before been seen in the judical branch. They've taken the battleground of monetary warfare to the last branch of the government. After all, when you've got the senators and representatives and presidents in your pocket, why not the judges? Make sure that those rulings will go your way. Unsurprisingly enough, in his short career as a judge, Injustice Roberts has clearly shown his support of the corporation over the individual, so they have good reason to spend some cash. It'll come back tenfold. At your and my expense. Typical. At least we're being consistent with the downslide of our two party, one ideal monopoly.
For me, I'll continue to do my best to be free of either party, of any party in general. I would like to have a say in what happens on every issue, instead of sort of pretending to have a say in which slimeball gets to go to capitol hill and take the corporations money to vote to screw me. Will it happen? I sure as hell don't know.
posted by WunEyedDog @ 4:03 PM
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did you take an angry bitter pill this morning? i wish i knew what was going on, but i'm sadly uninformed. hopefully someone else will have an opinion.
No angry bitter pill. I just had a tiny little shred of hope that the Pres would make a nomination in the vein of O'Connor, instead of a partisan hack. I should have known better.
Thank you very much, FD, I appreciate the kind words. It's pretty easy to get disillusioned when you don't agree with things that are happening. I'd like to be in a position someday to help change things, but fow now, I do what I can. Of course, I'm sure that if that day comes, there will be plenty of people who don't agree with me. And that's what I'm hoping that we'll still be allowed to do. Have our own opinions and express them.
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