The untimely passing of Antonin Scalia has got me to thinking about political loyalty ... primarily because this is a key element in the picking of Supreme Court justices. There seems to be a very strange divergence between liberals and conservatives insofar as their loyalty to their party's causes. Has there ever been a lefty Supreme Court justice who has suddenly ruled for the right in an important case? Whereas the opposite has frequently happened ... most recently David Souter, Earl Warren, William Brennan and some would even include John Roberts.
This can't be accidental ... only because it so consistent a divergence. The question then is why do these turncoats (from the right to the left) so often happen? It must be peer pressure. Our social scene and media bias is consistently left-leaning ... and, one must assume that turncoat justices feel and then fail to resist this force.
There is one other, less-likely possibility ... perhaps conservatives are more suseptible to blackmail than liberals?
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There is another possibility, George: conservatives do not wear irremovable blinders, see the world as is really is (i.e. liberals do have a case sometimes), are rationally more attuned to the complexities of the many grays of the law and indeed our lives, are, thank heavens, more flexible.
And I nought that Liberals were the agents of change ...
Or maybe it’s just that right wing is wrong all the time.
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