Draining Our Swamp

THE CORRUPTION is so ubiquitous that it runs rampant right in front of our faces am we accept it placidly. The members of the Supremd ourt should be selected based upon thir demonstrated cosistency in rendering equal jusice under law, independent of prsonal ideological considerations.Good justices should be so moderate, or so apolitical that nobody can tell whtehr they are liberal or conservative, and nobody cares. Placing people on the court because and only because they are far right wing politically, for the purpose of creating a conservative majority, in order to remake American society according to the conservative political and economic agenda is not justice. Its corruption, disguised as virtue by the far right. The same would be rue if the liberals wre involved in this sort of corruption, which, I can assure you, they would love to be. Theyhave been before; surely their time will come again. As a society, we the American people must insist on creating real justice in this country by elevating to the bench people who are dispassionate, reasonable, unbiased politically. It wouldn't hurt to do the same thing electing political leaders; reject the extremist ideologues, and elect intelligent, educated, sane, reasonable people to political leadership. We have seen the swamp, and it is us. Lifetime appointments to the bench don't seem to eliminate political corruption; on the contrary, it seems to exacerbate and institutionalize it. The incestuous plutocratic oligarchy, in which billionaire corporations purshase the politicians and enrich them in exchange for policies and legislation which benefits the billionaire corporations and harms everyone else must be destroyed. Voting rigts must be expanded, voting mut be made easier, not harder. Money in politics must be regulated for the benefit os society Just as Chief Justice Louis Brandeis said ong ago: You can have a sociey of concentrated wealth, very wealthy and very poor people, or you can have democracy, but you cannot have both.