“You Are All a Lost Generation” – The Supreme Court’s Demolition of Constitutional Rights.

(Why we are responsible for The Supreme Court’s new legal regime of constricted and chastened liberty)

By

David Gottfried

The left is getting buggered by the Supreme Court big time.   The Court not only axed Roe v. Wade, but also issued new rulings that augment the power of the Right in guns and promote religious entanglement with public institutions.  Gay rights are probably on the chopping block.  Yes, we have a Democrat as President, but he is a eunuch whose manhood is in the claws of Republican Senators. (Footnote 1)  

Recently, we witnessed the flowering of civil liberties.  Now the flowers are dying, and this reminds me of Gertrude Stein’s famous dismissal, “You are all a lost generation.”  Her harsh words seem so apt with respect to so many young people. (Footnote 2.)

The day after the 2010 midterm elections, I was rather upset as the Republicans gained more that 60 House seats and numerous seats for other offices.  I was somewhat voluble about my anger, and I expressed my discontent to other patients in my doctor’s waiting room.    (I had a doctor’s appointment the day after the election.) 

The receptionist, an obese woman of color, asked me, “Was there some kind of, what you call it, election yesterday ?

Apparently, she was like millions of other Democratic voters.  In other words, she was a bit of a half-wit.

I would think that anyone with an IQ above 70 (The dividing line between the retarded and the non retarded) would have heard the words “Senators” and “Congressman” by now.  I would think they would have heard that these people are in some way connected to the work of Washington.  I would think by now these mental midgets would know that if Obama did not have support in Congress, his policies would be stalled in the mud. 

Republicans know this.  You may claim that Fox News watchers are stupid, but they are, apparently, not as stupid as Democrats.  For many decades, the same thing has happened without fail:  In the midterm elections, the Democratic vote plummets while the Republican vote barely declines.  

Democrats, steadfastly stupid, believe that the Democrat they elected for president can surmount all hindrances from the merely annoying to the patently evil.  The seem to think that mild-mannered wimps like Obama and Biden can morph into superman and cancel out the malignant machinations of a Senate that is as wedded to aristocratic privilege as the very first Senate, the Senate of ancient Rome.   

Consequently, in mid-term elections following the win of a Democrat in a Presidential race, Republicans score very, very big.  Democrats believe that having elected a Democrat as President, they have done all the political work they will ever have to do. 

In 1992, Bill Clinton won, and the dizzy Democrats thought they could attain Nirvana, did not show up to vote in 1994, and the GOP swept the nation in 1994.   In 2008, Obama won, the Democrats thought the election of a liberal with a dark complexion was the ticket to salvation, stayed home in the 2010 election and Obama was frozen into abject passivity for the remaining 6 years of his presidency. 

This discussion might seem a tad racist.  After all, I noted that the receptionist, who asked me if there was “Some kind of election last night,” was an obese woman of color, but I think that if we prettify and deracinate our discourse, we are being so much more racist as we are being very gentle with people because we fear they are too stupid or too emotionally unstable to hear harsh criticism.  (Footnote 3)

America has many problems and many of them are too complex for  common political analysts to comprehend.  Political Analysts are singularly ill equipped to understand the psychological problems that make people become such inane and irrational political actors.

For example, I think most of my left of center readers will readily agree that Trump’s Neanderthal hard core suffers from psychological deviations that produce irrational political thoughts.   For example, when Marjorie Taylor Greene tells us that Jews caused fires in the Southwest by using lasers which they operated from outer space, her thought cannot be excused as merely Avant Garde, or imaginative or comedic rambling; rather, she has a brain firmly entrenched in the outer reaches of the twilight zone.  Similarly, when the Democratic base is so persistently AWOL, we must ask:  What is wrong with their heads.

When the Romans wanted to distract and con the poor, they gave them bread and circuses.   In America, we give the poor, which is the Democratic base, Popeye’s Fried Chicken and gangsta rap.   We give them enough high caloric junk (Why does the Department of Agriculture subsidize the production of corn syrup. Why is the nation so intent on making diabetes more widespread than it already is) to make them wander listlessly through shopping malls, their blood sugar soaring and their cognition stalling.        

Of course, the poor cannot always be half asleep from borderline diabetes, and when the poor are awake, their minds are addled and deluded by cheesy, trashy media dreams.  Although blue America might not go to a Church or Synagogue Or mosque, don’t ever believe that they are irreligious.  Indeed, they are nothing short of idolatrous.  They bow down to celebrity culture every waking hour of their day.  

I submit to you that millions of young women of  color are under the spell that they may become a great soul singer and thereby fall in love and be showered by an everlasting succession of buckets of chicken wings.  I submit to you that millions of young men of color are hexed by the delusion that they are on the precipice of an athletic feat that will redound in their receipt of millions of dollars and sneaker endorsement fees.   I submit to you that millions of young white men think they will be the next Mick Jagger (I was one of them.)

When your stardom, or your means of making a purposeless, monotonous life become something livable, is imminent, going to the polls and voting seems like a quotidian, boring, passe task; one with princely promises has finer things to fantasize about.   

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Footnote 1:   The relationship between the two major parties reminds me of the electoral compromise of 1876 which was responsible for the death of reconstruction and the rise of the KKK:  The Republicans were given the White house, but the progressive policies of the “Radical Republicans, of Thadeus Stevens and Charles Sumner, were ditched, Northern troops were withdrawn and Dixie rose again, just as Lincoln’s assassin had prophesied.   

Footnote 2:  Perhaps, I should note that in “A Movable Feast” Ernest Hemmingway said that Stein said “You are all a lost generation” to a parking garage attendant who dawdled while getting Stein’s car and that Stein was a fussy, bitchy lady who didn’t understand the alienation of poor working men who had just had their limbs blown off in World War One.  Her remark may have the aura of profundity, and can be used to refer to things awesome and important,  but it was provoked by her cantankerous character. 

Footnote 3:  This is an old story with condescending liberals.  For example,  at clinics frequented by indigent HIV patients of color, the patients are given M & M candies to take for two weeks before they start their HIV medication on the grounds that these patients are, in the belittling racist imagination of liberals, too stupid to know how to swallow  a pill once or twice a day and must therefore first practice by swallowing candy.   Jesus Fucking Christ:    George Washington Carver was a black man who was born in slavery, and he became a biologist whose agricultural discoveries saved millions of Southerners from starvation.    Scott Joplin was a black man born into slavery and when he composed “Maple Leaf Rag,” he became the first person to marry the European Symphonic Tradition to the African Rhythmic Tradition, and this was the kernel of America’s most important contribution to music.   I may growl like a racist, but I have infinitely more respect for black people than those scads of cookie-cutter white. liberal pussies who utter prissy platitudes about brotherhood and are, in their hearts, as confederate and complicit with racism as George Wallace sipping mint Julips with Anita Bryant.   Believe me, liberal assholes:  People who have survived homelessness and beatings can understand the instruction to “Take one pill twice  a day.”