Thursday 4 October 2018

Providence Has Been Pleased?

There is no doubt that she was sexually assaulted by someone all those years ago, but Brett Kavanaugh's principal accuser is confused. The others are rather worse than that. And Kavanaugh himself is a drunken hysteric who ought not to be allowed to judge so much as a vegetable-growing competition.

But in observing this spectacle, my many friends in American paleoconservatism, many of whom come from the same background as Kavanaugh's, are bewailing the apparent loss of the American cultural homogeneity that was extolled by the Founding Fathers. Well, the Founding Fathers did not mean hard-drinking Irish Catholics. If there were three things that they did not mean, then it was "hard-drinking", "Irish" and "Catholic".

"Providence has been pleased to give this one connected country to one united people — a people descended from the same ancestors, speaking the same language, professing the same religion ... very similar in their manners and customs. ... This country and this people seem to have been made for each other, and it appears as if it was the design of Providence, that an inheritance so proper and convenient for a band of brethren, united to each other by the strongest ties, should never be split into a number of unsocial, jealous, and alien sovereignties."

So wrote John Jay, the first Chief Justice of the United States. He was no more referring to people like Brett Kavanaugh, or Pat Buchanan, than he was referring to people like Clarence Thomas.

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  1. If you’d prefer a liberal, pro abortion, anti-marriage, pro immigration and anti gun majority on the Supreme Court, then join the Democrat protests against Kavanagh.

    The rest of us are campaigning for the first conservative Supreme Court majority since Warren.

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    1. Having confirmed him, you wouldn't win another election in 30 or 40 years, so it would be academic. He wouldn't strike down legislation that you wouldn't be in a position to enact in the first place. Get someone else. Or, quite literally, get stuffed.

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