Court-Ordered Calamity
Sorry to have been absent from the blog for so long. Had a few physical problems that I believe are behind me now. Thus emboldened, I did want over to express my puzzlement over the July Fourth just passed. In my neighborhood the explosives were louder and lasted longer than ever. Was there really that much to celebrate? Or were the “celebrants” just warming up for the violence to come?
As some of you know, over the last twelve years I’ve been telling anyone who will listen that our country is coming apart at its visible seams as our culture wars expand and our politics fragment further into hostile culture blocs. What makes such calamitous divisions more likely are the recent reactionary decisions handed down by our runaway Supreme Court. In a mere two weeks it banned abortion rights, weakened gun laws when the nation has become a coast-to-coast shooting gallery, curbed the EPA control over fossil-fuel polluters, gave public taxpayer money to religious schools, and sanctioned public prayer at football games, thus violating the Founding Fathers’ dictum of separating church and state.
What might be next? Banning contraception in an already overcrowded world? Ending gay marriage? Stripping all rights from LGBTQIA+? Encouraging global warmers to burn on, thus triggering an unintended early Sixth Mass Extinction when SCOTUS’s more modest intent was merely to return us to the Middle Ages?
I know you don’t like to read or hear such depressing sentiment. Sorry, but I guess I somehow got the Cassandra gene and can’t stop warning of a national apocalypse ahead. Soon. Maybe this November. If not then, more likely November of 2024.
In the interim I’ve decided to devote my research to answering two nagging questions. How did we get the far-right, out-of-touch, politicized Supreme Court we have now? And how to give another try at killing the Big Lie that just won’t die...that the 2020 election was stolen from the Donald and his legions of Trumpenproles.
Til then.