Weekly Opinion Editorial
DISSOLUTION COULD BE
LOOMING!
by Steve Fair
On
Saturday Judge Brett Kavanaugh became Associate Justice Kavanaugh after the
U.S. Senate confirmed him in a 50-48 vote.
Only one Democrat- Joe Manchin of West Virginia- voted yes. Manchin is up for re-election in a state that
President Trump won by 42 percentage points over Clinton in 2016, so not voting
for confirmation would likely have sealed his political fate. Two Republicans did not vote- Steve Daines,
who was attending his daughter’s wedding in Montana, and Lisa Murkowski of
Alaska, who voted present. Murkowski had
said she would vote no, but since the outcome was apparent, she voted
present. A Supreme Court Justice is
sworn in immediately and as Kavanaugh was being sworn in by former Justice
Anthony Kennedy, protesters pounded on the Supreme Court’s doors.
Liberals
know what is at stake- it remains unclear if conservatives do. With the seating of Kavanaugh, the SCOTUS is
controlled by judges who subscribe to a ‘literalist’ interpretation of the
Constitution for the first time in modern history. Not all are strict
literalists, but they are a far cry from the ‘structuralist’ interpreters Hillary
Clinton would have appointed. If Trump
doesn’t accomplish anything more than seating these two Supreme Court Justices(Gorsuch
and Kavanaugh) in his presidency, he has sealed a conservative legacy not even
Ronald Reagan could accomplish.
Senator
Chuck Schumer, (D-NY), the minority leader of the Senate, held a news
conference after the vote and said the only thing that will change America is ‘through
the ballot box.’ Schumer is right, but
that doesn’t appear to be the shared sentiment of many liberals. Protests
and harassment of conservative elected officials continue. Some conservatives say the libs should accept
defeat, but no person with true convictions should ever ‘accept defeat,’ but
they should accept reality. Politics is
the art of the possible. Many, on both
sides of the aisle, expect the impossible and will not accept the
possible. They reject majority
rule. They would rather have nothing
than something. If you get involved in
politics, you’re going win some and you’re going to lose some, but when you
lose, you roll up your sleeves and work harder in the next election cycle. It’s
fine to oppose policy you don’t agree with.
It’s acceptable to ask elected officials to justify their vote. It’s not o.k. to threaten them with bodily harm
or harass them in public.
The
divisiveness of the Kavanaugh hearings and vote have some saying the United
State is more divided than at any point in our nation’s history, but that is
not true. Between 1861 and 1865, America
fought a Civil War, where over 620,000 Americans died. America
is not on the brink of civil war, but it appears dissolution could be on the
horizon. At some point, the people
paying the bills may elect to not be a part of a liberal America, where
everything is free. They may grant the liberals
their wish and secede from the union.
That’s becoming more and more viable every day.
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