Mother Jones: A long list of GOP senators who promised not to confirm a Supreme Court nominee in an election year: https://www.motherjones.com/2020-elections/2020/09/a-long-list-of-gop-senators-who-promised-not-to-confirm-a-supreme-court-nominee-during-an-election-year/
We need to hold the hypocrites accountable. The Senate Dems must hold them accountable and stall any confirmations.
So much that is fundamental to American jurisprudence, such as the interpretation of the commerce clause (what essentially gives the Fed gov't the authority to regulate certain things that states do) will be lost. The judges and justices appointed by the modern GOP aren't just conservative, or even right-wing, they are extremists. Alito is an extremist, Thomas too. The three others (Roberts, Gorsuch, Kavanaugh) less so, but still pretty out there. They don't believe the Fed gov't can do ANYTHING. This is dangerous to our system of government. This is why I fear what is happening now. Neither Biden nor any democratic president in the future will be able to do anything. They will pass legislation and some right wing group will sue to stop it, and eventually SCOTUS will render it void.
Is this the coming of the prediction that people will turn to the states, because the fed gov't will be useless? I fear it is.
@timo Thank you. As Dory says,.... Just keep swimming, just keep swimming.....
This is the time for us to turn up the hope. Turn it up in your hearts. See RBG, Lewis, Cummings, and so many others working with us. The Afterlife expands our abilities. I feel RBG let go because she realized when at the edge of the abyss that she could do even greater work in the beyond.
Without ego, we become greater, we spread our wings.
I see a great Native American shaman guiding us all. Saving the election means saving the garden we live in -- the trees, birds, oceans. See us saving this precious earth. Help RBG et al do their work by expanding your own selves in hope. Fight this fight. Stand up. Do all you can. Call your elected officials and demand that they do all they can. Get engaged in good trouble.
After hearing about RBG’s passing last night, I read about the outpouring of grief for her loss and fear about the future. In the midst of grieving for her myself, I looked inward and discovered that surprisingly, I was at peace, that I felt calm. Instead of fear, I still feel that calmness. I understand the import of her passing and the coming shift of the Supreme Court to the right and what that could mean for the decades ahead. It’s a frightening scenario.
Then as I was waking this morning, I heard a melody and fragments of a hymn, a Christmas carol of all things. The lyrics that kept repeating were:
“Above thy deep and dreamless sleep
The silent stars go by.
Yet in thy dark streets shineth
The everlasting Light.
The hopes and dreams of all the years
Are met in thee tonight.“
At first, I couldn’t even identify the hymn without hearing the introductory lines, but these are the lyrics of “O Little Town of Bethlehem.” I always stop and think about music that comes to me in the night or upon rising and believe they are messages from Spirit. At first these music messages seem incredibly random, but they always have a message or reassurance for me. The reassurance is also for those reading this site: we are not alone in these momentous times. Be comforted.
Taken in a larger context, the town of Bethlehem was on the verge of a great change, a gift from God. We are on the verge of change, too. Peace to you.
I felt such a sense of despair last night when I first heard this news about RBG's passing. Soon thereafter, however, I began to shift and just feel that this is part of the collective karma. Her passing came at this time to insure that people will not be complacent - and also to sound the sirens that it is not just the presidency that matters, but the senate as well. It also exposes the corruption of the GOP quite clearly. With each passing of such huge contributors to history over the course of 2020, I feel as though it it just another catalyst for change - deep and lasting change.
Although I live in "deep red" Tennessee, I donated to our democratic candidate for Senate this morning. TN is a non-voting state (48/50) and only 30% of the electorate here voted in 2016. That is what needs to change - we all have an investment in this - and we have to believe in the possibility that getting in good, necessary trouble could bring about a change.
@bluebelle, I also wonder if the disastrous fall of Jerry Falwell Jr., Trump endorser and hypocrite leader of Christian Right, could prompt a Christian shift away from Trump.
I hadn't realized it until now, but when I googled "the fall of Jerry Falwell, Jr." I not only got all the stories of his sex-capades and sex and alcohol photo he posted himself, and sweetheart deals he made with handsome young men, but finally a real fall earlier this month, which exposed a drunken fall. You can't make this stuff up.
Reported in the Wall Street Journal and https://www.wsj.com/articles/after-jerry-falwell-jr-a-reckoning-for-liberty-university-11599384600
The Evangelical political bloc is a cult, a right wing religious/political cult and a perversion of true Christianity. By pledging their loyalty and devotion to this corrupt and most unChristian of presidents, the Evangelicals have lost any moral authority they had left. I wonder if that entire movement will fade away with the boomer generation, because the Evangelicals are losing young people. May Jerry Falwell Jr.’s fall symbolize the fall of the entire religious cult.
ttps://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/2017/1010/Amid-Evangelical-decline-growing-split-between-young-Christians-and-church-elders
I wish I could like your post a million times. "a perversion of true Christianity" Nailed it.