Kavanaugh Confirmatiom: A Hard Lesson for Us to Learn

[louis c]

Let's just say it as plain as day, another Conservative Justice on the Supreme Court will be disastrous. But, as we have all heard all too often, elections have consequences. We can't go back to 2016 when Susan Sarandon and far too many of her like minded morons told us that there was no difference between Trump and Hillary. I had been preaching from day one, while there was still 17 Republican candidates, that this election is about the Supreme Court. I would have voted and worked for Woody Woodpecker if he was the Democratic nominee and it didn't matter who the Republicans nominated. The future of America was in the next 2 or 3 appointments to the Court. Cruz knew that. The Evangelicals knew that. They didn't care if a rapist won the election or they put one on the Court, as long as he (or she) voted their way. Well, now we're paying for that. The most telling exit poll on Nov. 6, 2016 was this one: 19% of the voters voted strictly on the appointment to the Supreme Court. Of those 19%, 54% voted for Trump and 42% voted for Hillary. That amounts to a difference of over 3% in the overall vote, in favor of Trump. There is no way that Trump beats Hillary in the electoral college if Hillary won the popular by over 5 points. So, now the chickens have come home to roost.

The silver lining? Everybody gets it now. Sometimes we have to learn the hard way, but in the end, we learn. We know how important elections are and how every vote counts. A Kavanaugh confirmation will drive that lesson home in every election in the future.

If you believe in civil rights, workers' rights, women's rights, health care, gun regulation and so much more, then in every God Damn Presidential General Election we need to support and work for the Democratic nominee like our lives depend on it, because they do.

[Fullduplexxx]

1. I have as well . I was screaming scotus to anyone who would listen

What i heard from dems was

Dems havent inspired me to vote

I need something to vote for not against

Im not voting for someone just because they have "d " by their name

Voting for someone just because they have "d" by their name isnt working for me anymore .

My neighbor , who retired from a ford plant, said "im not voting for that woman." He would just repeat that .

So i say good luck to you all hopefully you can save some of it

[Meadowoak]

2. Not just the Presidential elections. VOTE EVERY ELECTION! It matters. The lower courts matter too

[louis c]

5. I think I said that in the next to last paragraph...

..."The silver lining? Everybody gets it now. Sometimes we have to learn the hard way, but in the end, we learn. We know how important elections are and how every vote counts. A Kavanaugh confirmation will drive that lesson home in every election in the future."

[arthurl]

3. Everybody Gets It? Hope So

There have always been important issues at stake in presidential elections. Probably every generation has felt it. We feel it now, because we're in it. But how engaged we're voters during the civil rights era? Vietnam? Carter's inflation era? Great Depression? Did voter participation rates (solving for voter suppression) have wild swings in those eras?

[louis c]

4. Every generation has to re-learn this lesson