The thing that had me pissed off the most about this situation last night was the balance of SCOTUS now. The balance of SCOTUS has been my top voting issue since 2002. It has been a right leaning court my entire life. Ever since 2004 it has grown to the point where by objective metrics it is at least the furthest right leaning court since the beginning of the 20th century. It's possible to be the furthest right leaning court in the history of the United States. Yes, even further right than the Taney Court that gave us the Dred Scott decision. You think the decisions in recent years have been fucked up, buckle up. It's about to get way worse and if you are middle aged like me probably will be the rest of our lives. Now that Republicans have the Senate and the White House the two oldest conservative justices: Thomas and Alito, will probably be replaced with some 30-something far right ideologue sycophants. Think someone like Aileen Cannon, on the supreme court. They will sit there for the next 30-40 years. If you think that's bad, the 70 year old Sotomayor could easily have a health condition in the next 4 years requiring her replacement. The balance will get even further out of whack. I had hope that I could out live the tenure of all Trump justices even if there was little chance I'd be able to live long enough to see some of the worst decisions the SCOTUS has ever had: Citizens United, Dobbs, the one that gave near absolute immunity to Presidents as long as they say they are "acting as president" etc. There is no way for that to happen now. I'd have to literally live to be well into my 90s for that to even have a chance of happening now. And just barely a chance since the structural fucked uppedness of our system of government and the mental fucked uppedness of my fellow Americans too is going in a very bad direction. Which means there is a better than coin flip chance that these far right justices will be replaced with even further right justices over the coming decades. I'm angry not despondent generally because things change, elections happen, etc. But on this issue I am because short of a revolution overthrowing the government there is no way this will change in my lifetime, and I have to make peace with that fucked up reality. #uspoli #SCOTUS #rant
