The Rebel Faction

diss, i do drugs, good one demo. thats almost as good as accusing me of being petty when i post something thats one line, which you eventually admitted to being true, and got called an idiot in reply. write for leno.

though i admit i pretty much didnt read your post very thoroughly. so yeah thanks, you actually did need to put it in big red letters like that.

le sigh.

Regardless of his intent, Demo has a point. The Supreme Court of the country is a powerful institution, one onto which the appointment of polarized and biased judges serves only to perpetuate the polarized attitudes that have well suited both parties in their rallying cries. As nation, the United States should be becoming more united, but it is actually progressing the opposite way into a nation of squabbling, bickering, and endless protesting.

If I may offer a radical suggestion: allow the losing party of the election to propose the justices. In this way, barring a lame duck president, you would have the party in power of an opposing ideological viewpoint to the party promoting the justices. This would lead to mutually assured moderation... take the current situation. The democrats could never promote a social liberatarian, as the conservatives would block it. And the democrats would never promote a hard line conservative. At most, you would have moderate liberals or conservatives appointed. In general, you would then achieve a centrist court. The only situation in which this would not apply would be in the election of a lame duck President. But generally, when that happens, majorities in the house and senate are not overwhelming.

A thought.

but really, i do think that drugs make me cooler than everyone else on trf, because well, empirically, i just am. thats tough to argue with.

And the sky is blue...

I agree with Ahnk. I've never seen the country more divided than it is right now.