Crushed by the Leftist Juggernaut: One Lawyer’s Story

American Thinker.com ^ | May 7, 2019 | Adam J. Sedia

[Kaslin]

I went from almost a judge to being fired within the space of forty-eight hours. Why? Because it came out that I was a conservative.

I had read stories about conservatives being blacklisted, fired, having their careers and reputations destroyed because of their political views. Never once did I dream it could happen to me, an insignificant lawyer in an insignificant part of the country. But just this past week the nightmare happened, and I learned firsthand the consequences of running against the leftist hive that dominates our world.

I live in Lake County, Indiana -- the Chicago suburbs at the very northwestern tip of the state. It epitomizes the Rust Belt, with the great steel cities of Gary and East Chicago, the oil refinery city of Whiting, and the surrounding blue-collar suburbs. I grew up here and I practice law here. It has been a stronghold of the Democrats since the New Deal, and its political corruption is notorious. It was one of the last great political machines until the Bush Justice Department broke it up in the early 2000s. Even so, its vestiges still remain.

I had built a career over ten years as a civil litigator and had developed a reputation as one of the top local appellate litigators. When a vacancy in one of the Superior Courts occurred, several colleagues whom I admired and respected encouraged me to apply.

While most counties elect their judges, Lake County does not. It once did, but its judges were so notoriously corrupt and incompetent that the legislature abolished elections and put the county on merit selection. (Except for one judgeship, which the state constitution required to remain elected, but this is a technicality that would take too long to describe.)

[Lurker]

Lake County, IN. I see the problem.

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[ClearCase_guy]

The Left is a mindless, heartless, bloodthirsty mob marching in lockstep, out to destroy anyone who doubts its uncompromising and ever-changing orthodoxy.

We are more Stalinist than Russia.

[Skywise]

All of us need to start running for office and pushing back against this socialist corruption.

This is NOT America.

[liberalh8ter]

We need to start employing their tactics against them. If I were this man, I’d have started my own investigations into every name involved in this and dug up dirt on them. You can bet the NAACP and it’s kin is chock full of people with far more explosive social media accounts.

[irishjuggler]

The Left is a mindless, heartless, bloodthirsty mob marching in lockstep, out to destroy anyone who doubts its uncompromising and ever-changing orthodoxy. It must be stopped at all costs. The Republican Party is an ineffective means of combatting that juggernaut because its leadership lacks a spine when it counts most. And finally, if being successful requires me to be a leftist, I choose failure every single time.

Wow. What he said.

[Kaslin]

All of us? That leaves me out.

[bathousebarry_kenyan_cokehead]

Progressivism is a nightmare combo of nazism & communism that seeks to destroy every last drop of individualism, hope, creativity, self-sufficiency, compassion, kindness, love, generosity, logical thinking, and free thought that exists in mankind. It vacuums up all things that make us human, every thing that makes life livable, and leaves in its wake a world devoid of morality and shrouded in the grey drab misery of collectivism. Oh how beautifully content and free we would all be in a world without progressives.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Kaslin.

[Albion Wilde]

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