Honey
is my step-mother’s mother, and at age 95 is a bit hard of hearing to the point
one has to be prepared to shout at her to be heard. But she’s still capable of
carrying on a lucid conversation and holding her own in a verbal quarrel.
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So
what is it that can trigger this woman these days into outrage and a sense of
disgust and contempt?
DONALD
TRUMP. THAT’S who!
The
mere mention of Trump’s name or sight of him on television (and unfortunately,
she’s the kind who makes a point to keep up with current events off the television
newscasts) is enough to get her riled up.
She’s
convinced his election come the Nov. 8 Election Day proceedings will be a major
downfall for this country, and she can’t quite believe that a real majority of
our nation could be dense enough to pick that man.
Like
it or not, it is a viewpoint held by quite a few people – despite the idea that
the ideologues of our society want to believe that everybody who doesn’t agree
with them ought to shut up and learn to go along with what they tell them to
think!
WHAT
MAKES ME feel compelled to bring up Honey is the fact that the ideologues are getting all worked up
these days over the fact that Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg felt
compelled to express her own thoughts of contempt over the notion that Trump
and his “know nothing” attitudes could prevail on Election Day.
Such
as saying that Trump has an overblown ego and “says whatever comes into his
head at the moment,” while also trashing him for refusing to make public the
tax returns that most political people eagerly do to show just how ordinary
they truly are. And that bit about moving to New Zealand? What a riot!
Ginsburg
has since issued something resembling a retraction, saying on Thursday her comments
were “ill-advised” and she “regret(ted) making them.”
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Largely
because the ideologues have been bashing her about with the very theoretical
argument that as a Supreme Court justice, she’s not supposed to have blatant
opinions on issues.
ACTUALLY,
MANY JUSTICES make it clear where they stand on issues that wind up coming
before the court. What really bothers the ideologues is that Ginsburg doesn’t parrot
their ideals. They’d love her if she did – and the nation’s high court were
truly as stacked in their favor as they wish it were! And as how people like
the late Justice Antonin Scalia (whose seat still sits vacant because of the
ideologues) would have made it, if they could have got their way.
Of
course, if it were, then we’d have real contempt amongst the public toward the Supreme
Court.
For
I don’t doubt that Ginsburg merely expressed a sentiment that is felt by many
people in our society – not just my elderly abuelita-type
person. It seems the conservatives amongst us really don’t want to have to be
reminded how despicable some of us find Trump to be.
And
how we interpret the fact that he was able to get the Republican nomination
more as evidence of how weak and ineffectual the GOP has become, rather than
any real strength on Trump’s part.
I
HAVEN’T TALKED to Honey in a couple of days, so I’m not sure exactly how she
feels about Ginsburg. Although I suspect strongly she’d be in agreement.
She’d
probably also think that the people determined to silence Ginsburg are the real
problem our society faces – because they invariably would not favor anything
that would silence those officials who happen to agree with them.
It’s
a one-sided mess. They’re the ones determined to make us into a monolithic mass
that invariably would wind up excluding many already in our society.
And
that, inevitably, would make us so deadly dull as a people, as well as
bordering on morally-bankrupt.
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