"Affirmative Action," SCOTUS-Style...

Back in the good/bad old days, depending upon your perspective, America must have been a truly "racist" country.

I don't remember it that way, and I lived through it, but perhaps the perspective of those from more, umm, "racist" parts of America had some demons to purge.  

It must have been racist, because then-President Lyndon Baines and "Lady Bird" Johnson rammed their so-called "Great Society Programs" through Congress.  To "fix" our racism, I suppose.  A multi-$Trillion Dollar "fix."  But it involved planting flowers next to freeway overpasses and running public service announcements on TV and radio, and, most memorably, affording "Negroes" and "Coloreds" what they euphemistically called, "Affirmative Action."  

Calling them "Black" back them was a pejorative.

Anyway, that meant we gave them more than a helping hand; we marked them as unable to fend for themselves in our harsh society without being led by the hand.  Sort of like stray puppies.  They needed our help.  And, oh yes, we gave them an extra five points on their Civil Service examinations.  And on their college entrance exams.  And on apartment vacancies in Federally-owned buildings.

Five points.

Why?  Because, depending upon who you talked to, it was either, A), because they were stupid and couldn't fend for themselves; or B), it was payback, pure and simple, for the mistreatment of their slave forebears 400 years ago.  But in either case, it was a shove to the front of the line.  

Could be it was the difference between them getting a coveted slot in a university, and a more qualified White person who scored less than five points better than they did.  And some Blacks gaining entry into colleges and universities in which they could not realistically compete.  And then failed, spectacularly.  And of course, it paved the way for welfare abuse.  This entire process was shameful.  It was demeaning.  It portended to the entire world that this category of Americans, po' Blacks, couldn't cut it without our help.  Did I say shameful? 

Then Dr. M. L. King came along and convinced us we were all equal.  Not some, but all.  And that none of us needed to be treated as if we are second class citizens.  The Civil Rights legislation was passed, without Democrat help, I might add, and we all held hands and walked into a brighter tomorrow.

Except, Joe O'Biden's White House just leaked out that Supreme Court Justice Breyer will be retiring.

They needed a "shiny object" to take the public's attention off the train-wreck O'Biden's made of America in a just a short 12 months.

Breyer didn't make the announcement himself, BTW, like one would expect, after loyal service to the Country for 28 years.  Not just expect, demanded!  The White House leaked it.  O'Biden stole from him the right, and the honor, to announce his own goodbye himself, at his own good time, and in his own good way.  The way every single Supreme Court Justice has done for more than 235 years.

They simply bullied him off the Court so they could name his possibly even more "Progressive" replacement now, while the voting balance in the Senate might make it possible.  And with Veep Harris' veto-breaking vote assured in the likely event of a 50 - 50 tie, it likely will.

But screw that.  Let's talk about the important aspect of this "announcement."  O'Biden had promised while on the Campaign Trail that he'd appoint a Black Woman to the Court if given the chance.

Not the most qualified person, a Black woman.

He now will have that chance.  And he's already doubled-down on that promise.  The Campaign season will be upon us in the summer and fall, and they hope this will become the focal point instead of our faltering economy and our raging inflation and our soaring crime rate and our horrendous foreign policies and the increasing probability of a world war.  

A Black Woman.  Not the most qualified person, as the Constitution requires, but a Black woman.  Not a Hindu.  Not a person of Chinese extraction.  Not an Indigenous Personage woman.  Not an Inuit woman.  It just hazzzzt to be a Black Woman!  That would have to be the utmost expression of equity over equality I could ever imagine!  Don't look at qualifications, or experience, or talent, or writings or judgements or a track record.  No, just skin color and sex.  Boxes to check.  Hopefully to garner votes.  One from column "A," and one from column "B."  Like a Chinese restaurant menu.  How pathetic.  

As the cadre of Black women on MSPMS and CNN(LOL) commented in unison today, this is Biden's opportunity to "Make the Court look more like us."  Apparently, they are not aware that Justice Clarence Thomas, clearly Black, has been sitting on the Bench for decades.

But he doesn't count.  He's a Conservative...

I'd suggest that if they're going to go down this road they should take it all the way.  You know, if a little bit's good, a whole lot just has to be better, right?  RIGHT?  So why not appoint not just a Black Woman, but a Black Female Transgender Jewish Armenian Midget Gypsy, who identifies as a Vegetarian Inuit recovering alcoholic from Burkina Faso, with Plaque Psoriasis, and who prefers to be addressed by pronouns?  

I mean, if we're going to throw all rhyme and reason out the window, just wiping your ass with the Constitution, why not really make a splash?  I'd just love to watch it unfold.  With an even 50 - 50 Senate, plus the guaranteed vote of the sort of "Black" South Asian - Indian Veep to break a tie, presuming that's even legal (stay tuned America, lawsuits soon to follow!), who just might be the odds-on favorite to receive the Appointment herself (how ELSE should they get rid of her?), they can install any puppet dumbass they wish.  And they most likely will.  

But they must know their doing so will further divide the Body Politic, just in time for the General Election.  The results of which will surely leave them crushed, monumentally mashed, stomped on and crunched, disassembled and destroyed, as never, ever before!  Rolled up, folded, put away.  Forever.

My question is, will there be anything left of the Democrat Party after the November Election?    

God, will this be fun!