The Irish in Us

The whole conservative voting-bloc on the Supreme Court is Catholic, guys who came away from the Church with two things: a love of authority and the ability to rationalize anything. Black is white? No problem, the Jesuits taught them how to cope with that. Also, in a way, they never got off their knees.

So they demand that everyone else kneel as well or it unnerves them. Humanity must collectively kneel. You must not only respect authority but from a position of acknowledged subservience and dependency. I actually kind of agree with this but not politically. It should be voluntary and a church thing in America.

The separation of church and state is not only anathema to those justices but an impossibility because religion "informs" morality and morality "informs" the political system, so they're getting real with us and unreal with the law. Something had to give, and better that people be flat on their asses than standing.

Because it's an insult to God otherwise and a threat to the social order, an order in which they happen to be rich and powerful, by the grace and will of You-Know-Who. This is why they're on the same page as the KKK when it comes to freedom. Too much means disorder, so they like them some freedom but not too much of it.

At least in our hands. You constrain it to protect the system. So how about those Irish-Catholic hosts and commentators on conservative cable news? You would expect their psyches to have been well "informed" by the potato famine but, hell, they're just like the English now, looking down at other people for dying.

How undignified! No matter that we killed them or at least caused them to die with our invadey impulses. Heirarchy is, after all, the way of nature and of God. The invadey crowd happen to have landed at the top so the game stops there, by decree, but if we want to get uppity with them they do have lots of guns. Lots.

And they aren't afraid to use them. They probably sit on the shitter with gun in hand. They're packing all over the place. Some day our persons will all be like James Bond's Aston Martin, as the gadgetry gets better, with hidden weapons everywhere and we'll be able to blow smoke out our asses in retreat.

And maybe put down an oil slick. Every kind of cool thing. All under the auspices of the Divine Will. Who knew that religious devotion and correctness could take us there. God, I'm sure, looks down with astonishment at what He is said to have wrought through the good works of those justices and their allies.