Jaime O'Neill's observations about Supreme Court nominee, Amy Coney Barrett — and mine about our Land of Opportunity

14 October 2020

Indulge me

Today, I turn from reviling the fake opposition (Democratic) party to noting the Republican Party's fundamental unworthiness to live among humans.

Let's start with Jaime O'Neill's insightful dissection of . . .

. . . Republican Supreme Court nominee, Amy Coney Barrett.

O'Neill grants Barrett's intelligence and judicial qualifications. But he pulls aside her Cloak of Pretended Rectitude with the following observations:

I knew women like her in the Episcopal church . . . so infused with their own self righteousness, so blinded by their own sense of superiority, so in love with the narrative they'd created for themselves as to be utterly unable to see beyond it, to see other realities, the last thing you'd ever want in a judge, the antithesis of RBG [Ruth Bader Ginsberg] in that regard.

She is one of those holier-than-thou Christians who simply cannot talk to anyone who isn't cut from their cloth without revealing the condescension they feel for people who aren't among the anointed, not in the club, who don't project that utterly white family values profile.

[I]t just rises off of her in ways that bring back memories of such Midwestern snobs I knew growing up, in church, and when I later worked at the country club as a bus boy.

It is so riddled with hypocrisy at the core, so unctuous, so oily, so . . . phony.

And if I can get petty for a moment, her voice is grating, and she is so prissy.

Her recitation of her marriage and her lucky in love narrative made me think we have to revive that "Valley Girl" phrase--gag me with a spoon.

Christianity can . . . rob its adherence of mercy, freeing them from compassion, leaving it to God to provide so they needn't worry when they become too indifferent to the sufferings of others.

My own (cop and attorney) senses agree

Barrett is a good representation of the smarmily predatory WASP element of the Republican Party.

It takes an outsider to see this. That's why O'Neill's observations will not achieve consensus.

The moral? — Viciously aimed hypocrisy holds most of the economically developed planet in its grip

Unfortunately, ability to recognize and do something about metaphorical Satan's doings is only sparsely distributed among humans.

Unfortunately, for most of us — once Barrett is on the Supreme Bench, shared reality of any kind will lose its ability to touch her. Given that her core so visibly drips with better-than-thou predatory phoniness, Republicans' anti-humanity knife will continue to slash.

And, as with President Trump, Justice-to-be Barrett demonstrates that there is no limit to how high fundamentally mean-spirited and conceited folk can rise in our Land of Opportunity.

Exuding snake oil, we might surmise, is American culture's main key to power and influence.

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Jaime O'Neill's observations about Supreme Court nominee, Amy Coney Barrett — and mine about our Land of Opportunity