tonight, we'd still have our domestic power struggles and conflicts.
Separation, I think you're missing the enormous battle going on right now in this country for our future direction. What's been plotted and worked toward for 40 years has finally come to a boil.
Kavanaugh's presence on SCOTUS is intended to, over time, help others like him reinterpret the constitution to make this country a more authoritarian state, more in line with what the Hamiltonians intended long ago but failed to achieve. We'd still have elections, although senators would probably be appointed by elites in each state. But control would be vested in wealthy ruling classes, and our government would no longer be a Jeffersonian democracy of, by and for the people.
The Kavanaughs among us have always thought that's a very good and necessary thing, extremely overdue and desperately needed before sovereignty of the people destroys us. You heard his angry and rather hysterical claim that by not seating him America would "reap the wind" for years to come. This is likely in good part where that nonsense is coming from. Those of us who are not authoritarians and don't need the real comfort of having leaders make decisions for them of course disagree.
That's what I think's going on. Liberalism (and to some degree moderate conservatism) on one side, i.e., the Democratic Party, liberal and some mod con political independents, minority and women's interests, businesses, and religions on one side. Right wing religion, laissez faire/libertarian business, extreme wealth, white nationalism all in the mix on the other. And Russia, assisting them temporarily by launching some of its own missile strikes at our democracy, but hardly defining.
COUNTDOWN TO MIDTERMS: 38 days.
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