'SUPREMES' REDEEMED??

Repoobs On The Run?

From the top; an uexpected part of the Court, came a ruling today that could be seen as a move toward "atonement" from our Supreme Court.  Could it be that "Bush v. Gore" and "Citzens United" are too much, even for them, to bear?  Not so, evidently, for the hard-core trio of Thomas, Scalia and Alito.  I always thought there was the spark of a human being in Roberts' smile.

Those of you who have read my blog; "Black Graveyards"  (May 29, 2012), know how deeply the issue of medical care has shaped my life.  Even as I shook the dirt of "Misery" (Missouri) firmly and finally from my feet in 1959, the twin factors of race and class were wreaking havoc in the lives of those who found themselves on the wrong side of those lines and in need of serious medical care.  Many say, in the wake of today's ruling that perhaps we will come to see health care as a "national good", the way "defense" is regarded.

Let's hope!

The vote this Fall will tell us more about where the citizens of this nation come down on the subject.

Mitt and the Repoobs are "doubling down" it seems, so the show in on!  Perhaps the Court is beginning to sense that the best of our lives as a nation occurred in the 1940's when we were the least selfish and most united in the face of a foreign threat.  That foreign threat "moved in" following the war.

Because of the life-shattering events that happened to me during the Forties, my memories of that decade are frozen and still vivid.  Lightweights, like Brokaw, herald some portions of our society then as "The Greatest Generation". His writing shows he didn't have much of a clue as to what was going on with those of us on the wrong side of the color and class lines.   I especially remember learning early what a Jew was, because they were so roundly hated by the whites and were forced to live and keep their businesses on our side of the tracks.  The Wassermans would venture outside their store only in the twilight hours of the day. 

McCarthy polluted the 50's, the assassinations polluted the 60's, integration polluted the 70's, and backlash and greed polluted the remaining two decades of the 20th century in the United States.  After a horrible first decade of this century, we can all pray that the Supremes can help lead us back to our better selves.