Doctor Fate wrote:geojanes wrote:Doctor Fate wrote:So, you didn't read the long excerpt from the article I posted, wherein the history of the politicization of the Court was partially recounted? To blame the Republicans and pretend they are THE guilty party is to ignore history.
I read it, but most of it was all so old that it's just not relevant to what happen last year. With the exception of the Alito mention (which wasn't successful, so is not noteworthy) 1988 was the most recent date. That was 30 years ago and completely irrelevant to the world, politics and parties of today.
Right. So, everything that happened 30 years ago is irrelevant? Out with Roe v. Wade then!
With all respect, and much is due, you're not being serious here.
One is law, which is slow to change, and the other is politics, which has a half-life of 4 years. We have fundamental disagreements about politics: you look at history and talk about Dems or Reps as if history means anything to the current parties. The parties of the past are gone. The only reason our two parties have lasted so long is that they are constantly shifting, moving according to the electorate they pursue. The party of Lincoln and Roosevelt are gone.
Republicans denied the democratic president his supreme court nominee last year. There will, there must, be payback. No one in that capital building gives a fig about what happened in 1988, they don't even know and don't care to.