Democrats and progressives now dominate nearly every leading political and cultural institution in America. They do so because they have learned from experience that Joe the rag man and his cousin Jill the Walmart cashier, and her cousin Janet the college history professor can be bought with free stuff. But there ain't no such thing as a free lunch. So why do people act as if there is?
Joe likes his EBT card; Jill likes the head of household earned income tax credit and the deductions for children in the income tax code; Janet likes the federal spending that subsidizes higher education. Of course, Joe, Jill, and Janet have a lot of friends who are also feeding at the federal trough, such as Frank the farmer, Tim the Tesla owner, Wayne the windmill farm owner, Dan the doctor, .... well, you get the picture. Fill out the other names yourself. Don't forget to include your own name. Mine is on the list, too.
Democrats keep promising a free lunch, and Joe, Jill, Janet, Frank, Tim, Dan, Wayne and all the rest of us keep believing the impossible. Meanwhile, reported federal debt is 120% of GDP, and unfunded, yet required future federal spending already on the books tops $110 TRILLION. Annual GDP these days is about $27 trillion, so unfunded, yet promised federal spending for people who are alive right now and who will be owed that spending ("America must pay its debts," say Democrats regularly, with a sage-like, smug look on their faces) is more than four times annual GDP. That means if we took every dollar of income generated by every American for the next four years (a 100% tax rate on everyone), we still couldn't fund the promised and owed federal spending already on the books.
The most important exception to the opening sentence of this essay is the U.S. Supreme Court, which after many decades finally has a majority of originalist Justices. Those Justices are determined to follow the Constitution as it was written and ratified by the states. This is proving to be intolerable to Democrats and the press corps, who are unleashing a furious political attack on the current Court, especially Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito.
I have a co-worker who, when he doesn't get his way, accuses his coworkers of being biased and racist and retaliatory against him for his past bad behavior. Behavior of some journalists reminds me of this co-worker. The left no longer has its way, after several decades of having it all their way on the SCOTUS, so now they are assailing the most important institution in America, the SCOTUS, by attacking particular justices with entirely false allegations.
The behavior of journalists and Democrat politicians who are attacking the SCOTUS right now are in the same category as 2-year old children who throw a tantrum when they don't have it their way. They are in the same category as my co-worker who uses and abuses the wretched DEI doctrine that now permeates all of academia by filing complaints with the university's Equal Opportunity and Civil Rights office when he doesn't have it his way.
DEI, by the way, stands for diversity, equity, and inclusion. In actual practice in the nation's colleges and universities, the acronym should be written DIE, because in actual practice it delivers division, intimidation, and exclusion. Witness the recent treatment at the hands of Stanford University law school teachers and students of a judge who had been invited to speak. He was not included nor accorded equity. Several equally repugnant exclusions, which defy what the academy is supposed to be, have occurred at universities around the country in recent months and years.
Attacks against Justices of the SCOTUS must not be tolerated. That conclusion is the top, the bottom, and both sides of it.
No sitting member of the SCOTUS was appointed without long, serious, and thorough vetting. Every member of the SCOTUS is honorable, honest, intelligent, reflective, and dedicated to preserving the integrity and purpose of the SCOTUS. Journalists and Democrats who assail any of the Justices are way off base.
It's up to We the People to tell them to shut up and sit down. They are trying to bring down the most important institution in America. We must not allow it.
