Republicans are Playing with Fire

The death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg was not unexpected. The type of cancer she had this time is one that kills and does it fast. If you are of a religious persuasion, her passing on the eve of the Jewish New Year means that she is considered righteous among the nations. This may give people a higher spiritual sense some peace since there is a lot of pain in the nation. Her death, and it was not sudden, is opening the way for the hard right to press their advantage and impose their will on the majority of the nation.

However, for those of us who deal in the temporal space, the very now it is about her replacement. While she said that she wanted this to happen after Inauguration, regardless of who became president, the reality is that the Republican party will not wait. They have the advantage and they will not waste it. The only way this could slow down is for four Senators to find some ethics, in my view. They also need to realize that what happened four years ago is the kind of precedent that a more moderate Congress would respect.

The cruel reality is that the current iteration of the Republican party is a minority party. There are far more liberals and progressives than conservative Republicans, let alone far-right radical Republicans. The only reason why they hold the power they do is the electoral college, and a Constitutional system that require two…