1.
As people cheer the climber on the Statue of
Liberty and as she cheers herself, do any of them consider the families that
had come to NY on the 4th of July to make a once in a lifetime visit
to Lady Liberty and who, due to the selfishness of these folks, were prohibited
from doing so?
2.
Scott Pruitt’s resignation letter includes his
gratitude for the job and his joy in serving his country. It also states the primary reason for his
resignation: “the unrelenting attacks on me personally, [and] my family, are
unprecedented and have taken a sizable toll on all of us.” Causing someone to
resign because of unrelenting personal attacks is just another way that the
Left silences any opposition. Their intolerance
is anything but democratic!
3.
In this country we used to tolerate opposing
views. If we disliked the policies of
those currently in power, we voted for change at the next possible
election. Now it seems that people think
that if they didn’t get their way in an election, their recourse is not to wait
and work for different candidates, but rather to scream, assault, and attack
those they do not like until their voices are silenced and they are driven from
office. In so doing they are ignoring
the voices of their neighbors with whom they disagree (if not also silencing
them) and are placing their own selfish wants above those of their country and
its form of government.
4.
People who are opposing the Supreme Court nomination
before the nominee is even named are showing us that they don’t really care
about objectively looking at qualifications and picking a good jurist. Rather, they just want to obstruct and oppose
the President.
5.
People who want to know how a justice will rule in
regard to a prior case do not understand how the courts work or what the role
of a justice is: to interpret and apply the law to a specific case that is
currently before the court; in so doing the law develops and progress and
sometimes old law is altered or overturned. But justices do not enact laws, nor do good justices go to the court seeking to do so.
6.
People who claim that precedent is set in stone
and can never be overturned do not understand what precedent is. Nor do they seem to realize that, for example, Brown v. Board of
Education overruled the “separate but equal” segregation requirements for
Blacks and Whites set forth in the precedent case of Plessy v. Ferguson. People
who are against ever seeing the law progress in this way do not understand the
role of precedent or of the Court within our three branches of government.
7.
Why do so many of our politicians simply spew
forth their party line instead of thinking for themselves? Why do they put their loyalty to party and
their own power above the country? Why
do representatives often just represent one identifiable group within their
district rather than considering the voices of all their constituents?
8.
For that matter, why do so few people think
beyond the surface or for themselves?
9.
Our country, while not perfect, is a great
country. Why were so many apologizing
for it and tearing it down on the 4th of July of all days? These people who think that our form of
government is so terrible, that our country is so terrible – would they really
rather live somewhere else? I am really
curious where that would be and why that would be and, especially for those many
wealthy who continually trash America but have the funds to move elsewhere, why
don’t they do so?
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