Serenade
Plutocracy
Friday, 13 May 2011
¶ So long as the Republican Party is in the grip of plutocratic ideologues, we will never cast a vote for one of its candidates in a national election. In our defense of this arguably simplistic policy, we point to the Supreme Court, which has been reduced to Gilded Age dementia by the appointments of the three Bush administrations. Today’s editorial, “Gutting Class Action,” points to the latest in a long linie of judicial monstrosities. Nor is trhe evil confined to the Supreme Court. Not until 2040 at the earliest will the Federal Bench be purged of right-wing judges — and that’s of course assuming that wingnut-financed Republicans never hold the White House or Congress again.