The young one’s choice

With the Supreme Court not being conservative enough in the minds of Trump’s acolytes, Himself, assuming, if not morbidly hoping Notorious RBG retires or dies soon, revealed his list of people he intends to put on the Bench if he is re-elected. He got this list from the Heritage Foundation.

 His nominees were not chosen because of their legal acumen, but on the possibility they can help reverse any progress made since World War II.

Ruth Bader Ginsberg is 87, and Stephen Breyer is 82, so either type of exit from the Bench would mean that two liberal judges will be replaced by rabid conservatives, and that’s how things will change.

His list includes Ted Cruz of Texas, aged 50, and Tom Cotton of Arkansas aged 43.

If Ted Cruz or Tom Cotton gets on the Supreme Court, he could sit on the bench well into his 80s. I will be dead by then, unless I break the century mark, so whatever damage a Dominionist and an ultra-conservative can do in that time will make my life uncomfortable, but I will not have to living under him and his influence for an unbearably long time because of simple Arithmetic.

If you are voting for the first time now that you have reached the required age, Ted or Tom will possibly sit on the bench until you are in you fifties, leaving you with the rest of your life to live in a country whose laws had to pass Ted’s or Tom’s imprimatur. And, supposing that you live to 85, (I chose that number as it is between Ginsberg’s and Bryer’s ages) that means one of these two, one soon and the other not much later, you will have lived under their Court influenced decisions for at least 65 years. That’s you adulthood. That is your future.

Look back into history for many examples of an oppressed class having to live under a ruling that hung around for decades.

Plessy v Fergusen from 1896 upheld the constitutionality of racial segregation in public schools as long as, while being kept separate, both Black and White schools were treated equally in facilities, educational resources, funding, and faculty compitence, and it also applied to any public facility.  “Separate but equal” actually denied equal education and the subsequent opportunities education can provide. It finally ended in 1954 with Brown v. Board of Education in which the US Supreme Court ruled that segregation in public education was unconstitutional.

Any non-White child attending public school lived under Plessy for 61 years.

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With a generation being roughly 20 years, three generations of non-White students were denied education and the same with the general non-White population during those years.

Rulings last.

And how did separate but equal deprive non-Whites of an equal education?

Let me explain how it worked.

I was in the Shawnee, Oklahoma train station one time. The “Whites-only” waiting room, preserved for history, had carpeting, cushioned chairs and sofas, Tiffany type lamps, tables, contemporary wood work, and a nice doorway with beveled glass windows to the platform. The “Coloreds only” room, also preserved for history, had a wooden bench on a dirt floor with what could have been the door to a farm’s outbuilding leading to the far end of the platform where the “Coloreds” waited away from the Whites for their designated, segregated train car at the rear of the train.

The rooms were separate, and, because there was seating and a door to the platform, the “Coloreds only” room and the “Whites only” room were technically equal as they supplied the same things, a room and a place to sit, but of obviously different quality.

Looking at social justice, racial, labor, and Gay rights decisions, it is plain to see that once a bad Supreme Court decision is made, it can be decades before it is cleaned up.

We are not voting for the 6th grade class president, but for the person who will see us into the future and can prolong his influence through upcoming court decisions.

Examine Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s record and then compare it to the actions and pronouncements of Ted Cruz.

That is part of what your vote will decide this November.

It is more than about Trump or making some sort of point because a chosen candidate may not have made it through the Primary, or he/she failed some purity test.

And, I will be honest. If you do not vote, or you throw it away for the purpose of making some useless point and start gveching at me because of how your future starts going, expect nothing more from this old guy than a very broad feces ingesting smile.

It’s your future, not so much mine.

Take control of it.

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