I think I have been too didactic, polemic, and left wing
since the advent of Trump and Trumpism.
I want to feel more balanced as I think about America and the
world. To that end, I am thinking liberals
are sometimes moving unwisely out of their disgust of Trump.
I think liberals make a mistake by going all out to block Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch. I
understand that the left think that the Republicans stole the vacated Scalia
seat from them by refusing to hold hearings on Obama’s moderate left nominee –
Merrick Garland. And I think it was
appalling that they did that. But, in
truth, what chance would he have had to be confirmed by a Republican controlled
Senate? I disagreed with the tactic, but I don’t
think Obama would have gotten a nominee confirmed.
And now the Republicans control the White House and the Senate. They will decide who becomes the next Supreme Court judge. If the Democrats exact revenge for Garland, don’t they use up all of their weapons on this confirmation – i.e. the filibuster? Gorsuch will replace Scalia, and the court balance becomes what it had been before Scalia’s passing. I didn’t like many of the decisions of that court, but it’s not really a change.
If the Dems block Gorsuch, isn’t there another Gorsuch in the
wings for the job? If they tempt the Republicans to use the “nuclear
option” of bypassing the filibuster and needing only a majority to confirm,
they would be much wiser, it seems to me, to wait until, or if, it is time to
replace a liberal Justice, not a conservative one.
I think liberals are laboring under a fantasy that hearings into Russian - Trump campaign improprieties will nullify the election. But isn't that about the same fantasy that conservatives harbored for a long time that it would be proved that Obama was really born in Kenya, and his election would be nullified?
The Reps were in the cold for eight years, they are in power now, and will be for at least two more years, and maybe up to eight. Liberals need to do something other than copy the extremism of the Reps during the Obama years.
I have hope that new leadership can emerge from the Left out of the ashes of the 2016 election to shine a new light. And, as a matter of fact, as Trump and the Reps continue to destroy themselves now that they are stuck with power and responsibility, I have hope that new leadership can arise from their ashes as well into an inspiring vision of the Right - which is not Libertarian, or Tea Party, or Corporate Plutocracy...
I think liberals are laboring under a fantasy that hearings into Russian - Trump campaign improprieties will nullify the election. But isn't that about the same fantasy that conservatives harbored for a long time that it would be proved that Obama was really born in Kenya, and his election would be nullified?
The Reps were in the cold for eight years, they are in power now, and will be for at least two more years, and maybe up to eight. Liberals need to do something other than copy the extremism of the Reps during the Obama years.
I have hope that new leadership can emerge from the Left out of the ashes of the 2016 election to shine a new light. And, as a matter of fact, as Trump and the Reps continue to destroy themselves now that they are stuck with power and responsibility, I have hope that new leadership can arise from their ashes as well into an inspiring vision of the Right - which is not Libertarian, or Tea Party, or Corporate Plutocracy...
