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I am blogging from Miami. I had to drive down here to pick up belongings our movers failed to take. I tried to rent a 12-foot van, and I got stuck with a huge 16-foot van that wanders all over the road and catches the wind beautifully.

It’s risky to travel and mention it on the Internet, because it’s an invitation to thieves. This time, I’m okay. For one thing, no one who hates me enough to cause a problem knows where I live now. For another, I have people staying at my house.

Anyway, I made it, and I got great news when I arrived: KENNEDY IS OUT!

If you live in a mine shaft, I’ll clue you in. Kennedy is the swing vote on the US Supreme Court. I forget who nominated him. Reagan, I think. He went native and made a veer to the left, and as a result, we’ve had a number of insane 5-4 decisions that should have been 4-5.

Man, this is good news. Now we have to hope that Trump doesn’t appoint another loose cannon.

People like to say presidents shouldn’t “pack” the Supreme Court. They say he should try to get a cross-section of the political spectrum. Here’s who says that: liars who don’t belong to the same party as the current president. Obama packed the Supreme Court as hard as he could, with Kagan and Sotomayor, and he would have given us another far-left nut had the Democrats not shot themselves in the feet by establishing a precedent which made it hard for Obama to appoint anyone while he was on the way out. Here’s the truth: every president who gets a chance does his best to jam EVERY LEVEL of the federal judiciary with people who think (or refuse to think, depending on party) just as he does.

George Bush appointed conservatives. Obama appointed leftists. Trump will not even consider appointing a leftist or centrist. Not even his sister, a far-left federal judge.

I hate hearing ignorant people say they vote for the man, not the party. They don’t understand that a vote for a president is a vote for a whole bunch of federal judges. The judges may be more important than the president himself. He can’t rule for more than 8 years. A federal judge is like cancer. They never go away.

This is very exciting. Ginsburg is not well. The odds that she will make it through Trump’s tenure are not great. With Kennedy’s long-awaited departure, we will most likely get a fairly solid 5th vote, and Ginsburg could make it 6. Another positive: any conservatives who are thinking of retiring due to health issues can leave safely now. If Thomas goes, we might get a bouncy, vigorous 50-year-old to take his place. SEVEN, plus a younger man to replace Thomas. It’s too much to hope for. I’ll hope anyway.

I don’t know if I’ll be able to publish this blog entry tonight. I’m using a laptop, and it looks like I changed my blog password since the last time I used it. I’m trying to get someone to email me a file containing the info. Maybe it will work.

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I got my blog working, so I’m here to write a little more.

The thing that interests me about the Kennedy story is the way it will hit leftists. My prediction is that it will set them off. They’re already stretched very tight. The loss of Kennedy is gigantic, and I expect them to lose what little composure they have left.

Think about this: leftists are suddenly against democracy. How about that?

Democracy itself is a leftist structure. Throughout history, nations have generally been ruled by kings. They were ruled by force. Ordinary people didn’t get much of a voice. The Greeks held elections, and the Romans had a senate, but they were unusual. When democracy swept the world a couple of centuries ago, it was seen as something scandalous. The peasants didn’t know their place! Back then, conservatives believed in royalty.

Suddenly, leftists are rejecting democracy. Look what’s happening. Donald Trump was elected legally, in reasonably fair elections. He appointed people legally. How are leftists responding? Are they saying, “Well, we would rather have someone else, but thank God for our system. We will wait our turn and try to do better, working within the framework our philosophical ancestors created.”? No! They’re persecuting conservatives in the streets. They’re rioting. They go to conservative gatherings, where law-abiding Americans try to exercise their freedom of expression, and they start fights and do their best to keep people from speaking. They’re abusing their tech power, banning us from social media. They’re not bothering to vote. They’re trying to take power by throwing tantrums. Suddenly they’re allergic to due process.

I assume they can’t see the hypocrisy. The left’s remarkable capacity for cognitive dissonance has risen to heights no one could have foreseen fifty years ago.

It’s fascinating. If you can’t win on election day, win through violence. Win by ignoring the law. Pretend the election never happened.

Suddenly, leftists hate the Electoral College, which is something that was put in place by voting. It’s not a wacky idea Republicans came up with in a desperate bid to gain power. It was built into our laws from the very start. Its existence was a condition states insisted on before they agreed to join the union. There is nothing illegitimate about it. Everyone agreed to it.

American leftists want their way, and they no longer care how they get it. They want dominion. They want to rule the rest of us as tyrants, and they don’t seem to care who knows it.

How did we get here?

If Kennedy’s retirement, which is a normal action provided for by our laws, doesn’t lead to riots, I’ll be very surprised. If they’re not throwing bricks and bottles by this weekend, I expect them to start when the new nominee is named, or when he is confirmed, or when the court hands down the first decision that really stings.

I have no confidence in the left’s willingness to submit to fair majority rule, when their policies start taking major hits from our highest tribunal. Affirmative action could be outlawed. Abortion could be severely restricted. Bakers might not have to make cakes for homosexual weddings. The list of possible provocations is long, and as the the terrorist Bill Ayers could tell you, the left is not good at withstanding provocation.

Are things going worse for the left than they ever have? Of course not. Trump isn’t that powerful, and there is good reason to believe leftists will be on top in a few years. The left hasn’t become a powder keg because they’re enduring exceptional provocation. They’re just less mature than they used to be. They no longer have any impulse control. Trump isn’t really that provocative. He just looks that way when he’s irritating people who have lost all restraint and civility.

I’m so glad I don’t live in a city. I want to move even farther out later on. When things go completely sour in the US, living in the country won’t save me, but it will be better than living in Miami or St. Louis.

I hope our next justice turns out to be a Scalia, not a Kennedy. I’m for anyone who can slow down America’s descent into utter depravity.