It saddened me to write this . . .

[CC27]

It saddened me to write this . . .
This is a comment I posted in response to retired Justice Stephen Breyer's op-ed in today's NY Times (see https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/03/opinion/stephen-breyer-friendship-court.html?ugrp=c&unlocked_article_code=1.hk0.zL3T.vi50e3X9BiUj&smid=url-share ). I have always held Justice Breyer in high regard, and so I was quite saddened to feel compelled to write this comment:


The sheer tone-deafness of this column is breathtaking. At a time when a hard-right majority on the Court is busy dismantling rights that half our population enjoyed for a half century, and is chomping at the bit to undo more recently-attained rights such as same-sex marriage, for a former liberal justice to issue such a condescending lecture about "civility," and to support it by bringing up his own chumminess with other former conservative justices, is not only singularly unhelpful in the present moment, but is positively infuriating!


(Link to comment: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/03/opinion/stephen-breyer-friendship-court.html#commentsContainer&permid=132291916:132291916 ).

PlanetBev (4,102 posts)
2. Thank You for this

I’ve heard Justice Breyer paper-over the condition of the SC on a number of talk shows and I thought it was pathetic. I don’t care if he has a wild three-way with Alito and Thomas, I care about where these pricks are taking our country.

peppertree (21,557 posts)
7. Shades of 1933 Germany - when Reichstag "institutionalists" backed Hitler just to thwart socialists

"Vee can handle him," they assured themselves.

And when Hitler's goons then set fire to the Reichstag, and blamed communists just to get them suspended from the floor (and thereby assure his Nazis a working majority)?

"Vell - zey are communists. Vee should go along, ja?"

Voltaire2 (12,714 posts)
8. historical patterns are so peculiar in real time.

Somebody said 'history doesn't repeat itself, but it often rhymes' (and it wasn't Mark Twain).
In the moment of an historical rhyme, the observer can be aware of the echoed pattern's facts, the era being rhymed, but it is only a conjecture as to how the rhyming era, the present, unfolds.

Perhaps we just need to imagine a better rhyme than theirs.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100218832905

Tons of stupid in this thread

[Old n Grumpy]

Being civil to someone who has a differing opinion is just not in their make up. If you don’t agree with them, you’re the enemy. And they have a problem listening because their mouths are always open and their ears are closed.

[SVPete]

TL;DR version:

Former Justice Breyer doesn't hate those DU-folks hate. GRRRRRRRRRRrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!!!

[ADsOutburst]

TL;DR version:

Former Justice Breyer doesn't hate those DU-folks hate. GRRRRRRRRRRrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!!!

Wait until DUers see the photos of the Clintons at the Trumps' wedding. They'll go berserk.

[CollectivismMustDie]

. At a time when a hard-right majority on the Court is busy dismantling rights that half our population enjoyed for a half a century...

Meanwhile the hard left is intent on dismantling fundamental civil rights that weren't made up out of whole cloth, that our entire population has enjoyed since the founding, such as gun rights and free speech.