So?
Twice in two days I've heard Hillary supporters argue that it doesn't really matter whether the wingnuts dominate the Supreme Court by a small margin or a large margin. "A majority is a majority."
In comments on a thread this evening I pointed out that among the differences between a 5-4 margin and a 7-2 margin would be that the larger the margin, the longer it will be before sanity might be regained in the Supreme Court.
The reply was one word: "So?"
So??
A McCain presidency would mean more years, perhaps decades, of a Supreme Court that caters to wingnuts, with everything that implies about privacy and liberty.
A McCain presidency would mean more stupid wars and more avoidable deaths of soldiers and civilians.
I hear Hillary-supporters-turned-McCain-supporters or potential-McCain-supporters talk as if these things don't really matter all that much. Not as much as hurt feelings over what some blogger wrote about Bill or about rude chat room comments from Obama supporters.
I don't understand a willingness to drag your country through these things in defiance of your own preferred candidate urging you to do the exact opposite simply because your feelings are hurt. I've had candidates I liked a lot lose before, and it can be depressing and discouraging, but I never felt the desire inflict something like McCain on anyone as a result.
So let me try a different appeal. Some of you have children of an age such that they might be drafted to be cannon fodder in McCain's stupid wars, if McCain is allowed to start the wars he wants to start.
Some of you have children who would, if McCain can shift the Supreme Court balance even further to the right so that the wingnuts dominate the Supreme Court for another decade or two, possibly grow up without the right to marry the person they love, or without the freedom to make their own basic reproductive choices.
And these are just some of the non-trivial consequences that might fall on the heads of your own children as a result of a McCain presidency. Or if not your own children, then your nieces and nephews. Children of your friends. Children of people you don't know. My children.
So.
In comments on a thread this evening I pointed out that among the differences between a 5-4 margin and a 7-2 margin would be that the larger the margin, the longer it will be before sanity might be regained in the Supreme Court.
The reply was one word: "So?"
So??
A McCain presidency would mean more years, perhaps decades, of a Supreme Court that caters to wingnuts, with everything that implies about privacy and liberty.
A McCain presidency would mean more stupid wars and more avoidable deaths of soldiers and civilians.
I hear Hillary-supporters-turned-McCain-supporters or potential-McCain-supporters talk as if these things don't really matter all that much. Not as much as hurt feelings over what some blogger wrote about Bill or about rude chat room comments from Obama supporters.
I don't understand a willingness to drag your country through these things in defiance of your own preferred candidate urging you to do the exact opposite simply because your feelings are hurt. I've had candidates I liked a lot lose before, and it can be depressing and discouraging, but I never felt the desire inflict something like McCain on anyone as a result.
So let me try a different appeal. Some of you have children of an age such that they might be drafted to be cannon fodder in McCain's stupid wars, if McCain is allowed to start the wars he wants to start.
Some of you have children who would, if McCain can shift the Supreme Court balance even further to the right so that the wingnuts dominate the Supreme Court for another decade or two, possibly grow up without the right to marry the person they love, or without the freedom to make their own basic reproductive choices.
And these are just some of the non-trivial consequences that might fall on the heads of your own children as a result of a McCain presidency. Or if not your own children, then your nieces and nephews. Children of your friends. Children of people you don't know. My children.
So.
