But why look at the decades of advocacy and setting progressive standards for everyone when you can just get mad at her for not predicting her death more accurately!? Wouldn’t you rather just be unnecessarily angry on your phone from the comfort of your couch? /s
The herd has jumped on bandwagon that she’s bad and that all the good she’s done should be wiped out by one errant decision - again that involved her predicting her recognizing her own mortality - perhaps one of the hardest things for any person to do. It’s why you hear “I thought I had more time” over and over. It’s probably the most challenging part of my job as a physician- getting patients and families to realize that time is limited and further treatments futile. No one, absolutely no one thinks it’s their time, even at her age where everyone is one pneumonia, one aspiration event, one broken hip or GI bleed away from death. But yet, we trash her entire legacy because she was basically human?
Can also guarantee that none of these armchair pundits know an ounce of what she did to change our legal system for the good - the Integration Mandate, Intermediate Scrutiny, standing in Environmental Law, her dissent in Ledbetter v. Goodyear, her work in Reed v. Reed. They don’t know any of that! They just know that she’s one of many scapegoats for our current situation. It’s just another example of how the left shoots itself in the foot. We retrospectively find reasons to trash all of our heroes. Meanwhile, the right is ride or die for their people. It creates this self-fulfilling prophecy where influential people on the left become frozen and indecisive. Only a matter of time before we create reasons to hate El-Sayed, Ossof, Mondami.
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u/ifuckzombies Aug 29 '26
Strategically retire?
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