An antonym of "supreme" is "subordinate," according to the American thesaurus in MacOS.
The conservative majority on this court is "supreme" only in the sense that they warm seats on the highest court in the land. With the possible exception of Roberts, simply because he hasn't made as much news as the others, we have observed their character and they are as deeply flawed, conflicted and compromised as any American.
That isn't a virtue.
We don't want "ordinary" Americans sitting on the bench at the highest court in the land. We want extraordinary ones. These are very mediocre people, extraordinary only in the sense that the politics that put them there was so partisan and petty.
Subordinate to the process that placed them.
One of the disappointments amidst the myriad of tragedies that will accompany the collapse of this civilization is that there will be no history to record the mediocrity and mendacity of these minds. There will be no "judgement of history." Their infidelity and inferiority will be buried in the rubble they helped to create.
Perhaps in a thousand years, when humanity has regained the cognitive surplus to make a serious effort at understanding its past, some glimmer of their corruption may emerge, some record of their names and the decisions they made that hastened the collapse that buried their record for centuries may see the light of history.
“The evil that men do lives after them," until it buries all of us.
Originally posted at Nice Marmot 05:49 Friday, 26 April 2024