Posted on 07/28/2005 2:46:04 PM PDT by qam1
Start with this reality: In the 10 presidential elections dating back to 1968, the Republican candidate has won seven times. If you want to understand why Judge John G. Roberts will be approved by the U.S. Senate, you can stop right there.
Contrary to popular perception, the U.S. Supreme Court is not above politics. It follows politics. And in the past 36 years, the nation has moved to the right. It hasn't been in a straight line, but this nation is significantly more conservative today than it was in 1968. The court's makeup is just following that trend - as it should in a democracy.
Frankly, this is a painful reality for me to accept. I came of age in the 1960s, a card-carrying member of the baby boom generation (OK, just barely, born May 15, 1945), and having lived my life in the Northeast, I assumed that my moderate to liberal tendencies reflected the majority view in the country. The opposition to the Vietnam War, the civil-rights marches, the socially liberal (as in sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll) slant of my crowd surely represented the overwhelming view of my compatriots.
Wrong.
As it turns out, I am a representative of a minority group - a fairly large minority, but still a minority. Most of my presidential candidates have lost, and the issues that matter most to me and like-minded friends aren't necessarily reflected by opinion polls. We thought the anti-war movement was a great thing and that the march for equality for black Americans, including affirmative action, was a noble cause. I still believe we were right on our principles then and are right now, but a good portion of our generation didn't agree.........
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Or the Republicans in the Senate realized it and grew a freakin' spine
There's his problem right there. When "equality" turned into racial preference programs, most Americans intuitively understood that was wrong (MLK would have been horrified, I'm sure).
We thought the anti-war movement was a great thing and that the march for equality for black Americans, including affirmative action, was a noble cause. I still believe we were right on our principles then and are right now, but a good portion of our generation didn't agree
The message:
Republicans do not want equality for blacks. Conservatives see blacks as second-class citizens. Only Liberals are noble enough to see that blacks are humans too.
The reason the Democrats are in the minority today is because his little cadre of hippies drove middle America away from them.
Wishful thinking by the losers.
The Congress is a mirror of the nation's politics. The Supreme Court is a mirror of the nation's (self-declared) elite.
ML/NJ
Amazing. He almost gets it. At least he is honest.
Only if the nation is...*France*.
This guy obviously wasn't old enough to know
how it was in '68..or he was stoned off his
ass back then.
"I came of age in the 1960s"
The age of "flower power" and Hildebeast !
"It almost sounds like this guy gets it. But he doesn't"
What else would you expect from a newspaper that is owned by the Washington Post?
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