184 - Elegy for America's Dead Soul

My approach to this blog, and to most all my creative endeavors, has been to leave politics out of it. In today’s highly partisan climate you can’t take a position without losing virtually half your audience. As the readership for this blog is minuscule, I pondered quite some time before posting this and decided, if anybody gets so triggered over it they don’t want to look at the blog anymore, so be it.

Yesterday’s SCOTUS ruling gutted the soul of America. This isn’t just my take on it. You can’t find a more die hard conservative than Michael Luttig and this is what he had to say:

This is indeed an historic day in constitutional history as well as for the nation and represents the unsouling of America

America’s democracy and rule of law are this country’s heart and soul. Our democracy and the rule of law are what had made America the envy of the world and the beacon of freedom to the world for almost 250 years now. Today, the Supreme Court cut that heart and soul out of America.

No longer can it be said that in America no man is above the law.

I really don’t care what your political ideology is, we’ve crossed the rubicon and there simply is no upside to this disaster.

Knowing ahead of time today’s tune would be in Bb minor I thought about changing it to a friendlier key, but for whatever reason, Bb minor speaks to me when it comes to the kinds of emotions I’ve been having since yesterday morning.