Ask yourself this: why is the circuit that covers the largest and most populous area not currently represented? Why is a court that speaks for the entire country disproportionately represented by people from the Tri Cities and DC?
The SCOTUS doesn’t represent America, it represents an East Coast elite America that turns its head away from the harsh realities of working class Americans in Midwestern and Western America.
if it’s the East Coast Elite running the supreme court, then how come they’re doing regressive dumb shit like overturning Roe vs Wade and putting a stop to student loan forgiveness? How did either of these things help with the “harsh realities of working class Americans in Midwestern and Western America” ?
The Supreme Court is completely decoupled from the American population. What do you expect to happen? It’s a place where career justices can go to play ideology while normal people are suffering.
The East Coast elite is very rich and (by extension) conservative. They are never going to vote for things that actually help the American populace.
The East Coast elite is very rich and (by extension) conservative. They are never going to vote for things that actually help the American populace.
I would hardly call most New England states, New York, New Jersey, and Delaware as “conservative” by any stretch of the imagination. It doesn’t get conservative until you get south of DC.
Joe who supports the Patriots and works on a lobster boat half the year isn’t going to the Supreme Court. Bill who’s a theatre student at NYU isn’t going to the Supreme Court. The people that are going to the Supreme Court are predominantly white men from highly privileged backgrounds.
Ask yourself this: why is the circuit that covers the largest and most populous area not currently represented? Why is a court that speaks for the entire country disproportionately represented by people from the Tri Cities and DC?
The SCOTUS doesn’t represent America, it represents an East Coast elite America that turns its head away from the harsh realities of working class Americans in Midwestern and Western America.
if it’s the East Coast Elite running the supreme court, then how come they’re doing regressive dumb shit like overturning Roe vs Wade and putting a stop to student loan forgiveness? How did either of these things help with the “harsh realities of working class Americans in Midwestern and Western America” ?
The Supreme Court is completely decoupled from the American population. What do you expect to happen? It’s a place where career justices can go to play ideology while normal people are suffering.
The East Coast elite is very rich and (by extension) conservative. They are never going to vote for things that actually help the American populace.
I would hardly call most New England states, New York, New Jersey, and Delaware as “conservative” by any stretch of the imagination. It doesn’t get conservative until you get south of DC.
Joe who supports the Patriots and works on a lobster boat half the year isn’t going to the Supreme Court. Bill who’s a theatre student at NYU isn’t going to the Supreme Court. The people that are going to the Supreme Court are predominantly white men from highly privileged backgrounds.
Coincidentally, this forms the three metrics that correlate with conservative lean. Wealthier people lean conservative, white people lean conservative, and men lean conservative. In fact, even in the notoriously liberal New York Metro, white people are mixed https://www.pewresearch.org/religion/religious-landscape-study/compare/party-affiliation/by/racial-and-ethnic-composition/among/metro-area/new-york-city-metro-area/.