When the Democrats Step In It…They ‘Step’ In It

The September 18, 2020 death of U.S. Supreme Court justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, from cancer at age 87, has the Democrats in the position of supposedly trying to stop the Republicans—who hold majority control of the U.S. Senate—from getting through U.S. president Donald Trump’s nominated replacement, from the Seventh Circuit of Court Appeals and South Bend, Indiana, Amy Coney Barrett.

For those who are perhaps impressionable, this is a big election issue. 

I don’t think it is. 

COVID–19 is the top issue. 

Contrary to what the Democrats routinely pedal, the U.S. Supreme Court is not most urgent in the minds of all voters. 

Here in 2020, surviving COVID–19 has most everyone concerned and focused.

I find myself not giving a shit about the U.S. Supreme Court. There is no reason. The Democrats don’t care. Yes, they give lip service to caring. They use bringing up the fate of the Supreme Court to motivate fearful people—those who normally lean to their so-called political party—to vote for them in presidential elections. It is tied in with their contrived message, “This is the most important election of our lifetime,” as the Democrats promised in 2000, 2004, 2008, 2012, 2016 and, as it is pending, 2020.

I harken back to 2009 or 2010. This was the first year or so of the presidency of Barack Obama. The Democrats won their presidential pickup, with Obama, in 2008. During that period, Ruth Bader Ginsburg had already been diagnosed with cancer. One comment came from Jim Bunning. This was the former MLB pitcher who became a politician and a Republican U.S. senator from Kentucky. Bunning was told by a future majority leader and fellow Kentuckian Mitch McConnell to not run for possible re-election, in 2010, because Bunning barely prevailed in 2004 and was personally unpopular in their state. Bunning opted for retirement. His successor turned out to be Rand Paul. While he was still in the U.S. Senate, Bunning speculated that Ginsburg would step down from the U.S. Supreme Court because she was struggling to stay alive. Well, he was wrong on two counts: She did not step down. And her struggle to stay alive resulted in Ginsburg having outlived Bunning (who died in 2017). But there was some wisdom in what was mentioned by Bunning: Ginsburg should have stepped down.

Had Ruth Bader Ginsburg stepped down a good ten years ago, during the presidency of Barack Obama, and while the Democrats held majorities in both houses of Congress (the Republicans flipped the U.S. Senate with the midterm elections of 2014), the Democrats would not be in their position here in 2020.

I don’t take pleasure in the death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg. (Certainly not. Not at all.)

I don’t sympathize with the Democrats. (Certainly not this so-called political party in its current form.)

The Democrats are, No. 1, screwing over the actual left of this country.

The Democrats are also, No. 2, screwing over themselves with their sheer political stupidity with this 2010-vs-2020 example of Ruth Bader Ginsburg. 

The Democrats are, No. 3, wanting people who would normally lean toward them to “Vote Blue No Matter Who” after the corrupt, corporate party establishment—especially its previous U.S. president—screwed them once again with rigging the 2020 presidential nomination for a candidate who opposes [the actual progressives’] agenda.

I don’t think this is difficult to understand.

The main differences between the Republican and the Democratic parties are their brands.

The key difference between the Republicans and the Democrats, for how they operate, is this simple: The Republicans stab you in your gut. The Democrats stab you in your back.

What is amusing about this situation is a reminder, for those who need it, and for those who don’t want to be reminded, that When the Democrats Step In It…They Step In It.