The Skeeter Daddle Diaries

Will Rogers famously said back in the days when democracy was still in vogue: “I belong to no organized party; I am a Democrat.”

For some reason unclear to me, I got invited to emcee the Island Democratic fundraiser. Nobody asked me what my political affiliations were, maybe just assumed I wasn’t a card carrying Proud Boy or an Antifa member.  Coulda been a closet Maggot, pledging allegiance to the President in Exile.  Maybe they didn’t care, just a Big Tent for any of us fed up with the past few years of the Titanic starting to go down.  The S.S. America is taking on water now, listing to the right and looking for an iceberg chunking off in the fake climate change conspiracy.

Maybe some of us were hoping the highest court in the land would help to right this ship.  Well, they righted it all right.  Got rid of Roe v Wade after promising to abide by precedent, gave gun owners the freedom to carry concealed weapons about anywhere except maybe their own courtroom, finished off the separation of church and state, at least for Christian churches, not sure if other religions will fare so well, gutted the EPA’s ability to regulate greenhouse gases.  The black robed high priests finished off more than that.  They finished off their own credibility as neutral arbiters.  They claim to be Constitutionalists, meaning if the Founding Fathers didn’t mention it in the original text, there’s no basis for new interpretations.  You know, a couple centuries later.  Kind of hard to figure what they might have meant in regard to, oh, digital privacy, automatic weapons, birth control, cloning, artificial intelligence, global warming, all that new fangled stuff they didn’t quite anticipate back in the 1700’s.  No point trying to adjudicate anything that didn’t exist back then, I guess, just assume the Founders were clairvoyant.

When McConnell refused to consider Merrick Garland for Supreme Court Justice, saying it was too close to an election to let a sitting president nominate anyone, the Democrats howled, but … and this is typical … they rolled over for it.  They could have shut down Congress, they could have pushed the nomination over objections, they could have made a damn federal case of this completely bogus attempt by McConnell and his minions to subvert the Constitutional right of Obama to nominate the next Justice.  Steve Bannon once said that Democrats think these disputes are solved by a pillow fight.  Republicans bring a knife or a gun.

I don’t plan to go to the fundraiser with a knife or a gun.  But … I think it’s time for Democrats to fight back with more than a pillow.

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