11-09-2016, 03:57 PM
(11-09-2016, 08:11 AM)radind Wrote: I am relieved and now have some hope for the future of the USA. Looking forward to seeing how this unfolds in practice. There has been too much speculation based on assumptions.
Tearing up the last 8 years and extending the 50 year right-wing hold on the SCOTUS for another 20 is about as reactionary as politics gets. Sorry, but society is moving ahead at flank speed, and old politics will look even worse now than it did before ... which got us the Great Recession, if you remember. Putting it on steroids, as full control by one party can do, may crater the economy, and there is no way to fix it with a SCOTUS that adheres to rules written in the Agricultural Age.
You may wish to chose apprehensive rather that relieved.
Intelligence is not knowledge and knowledge is not wisdom, but they all play well together.