{"id":211042,"date":"2020-09-21T11:50:41","date_gmt":"2020-09-21T16:50:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thegallantpelham.net\/?p=211042"},"modified":"2020-09-21T12:05:02","modified_gmt":"2020-09-21T17:05:02","slug":"blue-states-vs-red-states-aint-the-issue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thegallantpelham.net\/blog\/blue-states-vs-red-states-aint-the-issue\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue States vs. Red States Ain\u2019t the Issue"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
I was planning to vent my wrath over President Trump\u2019s assertion that America\u2019s disastrous record in fighting the Coronavirus is attributable to the \u201cblue states,\u201d another of his seemingly endless falsehoods, but the death of Justice Ginsberg should takes priority over the President\u2019s latest stupidity. Justice Ginsberg was a lifelong champion of gender and racial equality, and her passing is a devastating loss for the country. Even worse, a great tragedy is about to unfold for the country if President Trump and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell succeed in replacing her with another devotee of the conservative, backward looking, Republican agenda, the likes of Brett Cavanaugh and Neil Gorsuch, Trump\u2019s previous Supreme Court appointees. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
I should mention that Mitch McConnell professes great admiration for my cousin (my mother\u2019s cousin, actually), Henry Clay, another Kentucky Senator, who was known as the \u201cGreat Compromiser\u201d in his day (1777-1852) for helping to postpone the Civil War no less than three times.\u00a0 I seriously regret that\u00a0 \u201cCousin Henry\u201d may have prolonged slavery in the name of preserving the Union, but I\u2019m confident the man would be turning over in his grave and retching vomit if he saw what McConnell is doing in the name of his antiquated, old white man\u2019s, vision of what America should be.\u00a0 Justice Ginsburg pushed America to live up to its greatest ideals, its promise and potential, while McConnell wants to keep it forever in its flawed past.<\/p>\n\n\n\n