The Real Nightmare (it’s not Justice Barrett)

The hysteria over Amy Coney Barrett is misplaced.

Justice Barrett will not destroy the environment, take away your healthcare and leave you to die, turn all women into “handmaidens”, return us to the days of segregation, or any of the other horribles that the Democrats would have you believe.

Instead, being an originalist/textualist Justice Barrett will read, interpret, and apply the text of written law and Constitution.  She will not deal in policy or legislation which is not the role of the judicial branch.  She has made it clear, in both her Senate testimony and in her actual rulings on the 7^th Circuit Court of Appeals that she takes her role as a judge seriously and with integrity; she does not decide cases as she might personally prefer, but is there to do her duty and to follow the law wherever it may take her.

If we were still taught civics and government in our schools everyone would know, and most would understand this.  (I would note that the blogs I wrote earlier this month – Oct 12, 13, 15, 22 - addressing the hearings on the Barrett nomination address many of the relevant concepts of role of judge and judiciary.  I will not repeat those detailed discussions here.)

Sadly, we are not taught and most do not know, let alone understand, these things.

But, what is sadder still is that Democrat politicians, most notably in this instance Democrat Senators including the Senator-VP candidate, are making repeated misstatements and mischaracterizations about the role of a judge or justice, about the judicial branch of government, and about Justice Barrett and her record.

And, even sadder is that people accept and believe these Democrat untruths without question.   Political rhetoric used to be aimed at one’s opponent, not at our system of government.  Yet now the Democrats aim their rhetoric at our system itself.

The Democrats lie when they say this appointment was illegal.  Democrats lie when they say the position of the Republicans on this nomination was inconsistent with their position on the Garland nomination (it was not; in both cases their actions reflect the will of the people who elected them).  Democrats distort the concept of originalism/textualism in a way intended to instill fear in the people. 

Democrats misconstrue the role of the judiciary in an additional attempt to instill fear and, more frighteningly, in a way to justify their intent to completely destroy the independence of our judicial branch of government by either packing the court with political operatives or completely altering the term of Justices. 

The people may be ignorant of what the Democrats are doing because it seems that few today really understand the non-political role of the judiciary in our governmental system; they may be ignorant of how this judiciary along with the other two branches and their checks and balances on one another are essential for our form of government.

But the Democrats know exactly what they are doing.  They are fomenting irrational fear and with it hatred of our government as it exists.  Why?  Not just to win this election, but to gain support for their goal of irretrievably altering it and with that alteration irreversibly ending America as we know it.

We can’t have a crash course in American Government for the entire nation.  All we can hope is that the voting public are able to see through the lies of the Democrats. 

Political rhetoric is fine, and we should expect our politicians to engage in it.  But when that rhetoric becomes a narrative of lies about our very form of government, lies that are designed to take hold in a populace largely uneducated about our governmental system, then we should all be very afraid. 

The nightmare scenarios that the Democrats like to present are nothing compared to the end of the American democratic republic that has been and continues to be a shining beacon not only to we the people but to all of the world.