Reply #7: It makes sense... [View All]

The appointment to what should essentially be a technocratic and expertise-based position has become so politicized that it is currently possible for one political faction to hold the nation hostage for decades by appointing sympathizers to the court, as we're seeing with the current Supreme Court, dominated as it is by corporatist and Opus Dei sycophants from the Reagan-Bush era. Just picture someone like Robert Bork being on our highest court for life and you know where this is going.

It's similar to how people claim that a Harper minority in Canada isn't so bad, when in reality that PMO has so many executive prerogatives as well as senior bureaucratic and crown corporation positions to fill that we'll stacked with a bunch of worthless, subhuman Focus on the Family types long after Little Stevie Blunder gets put out to pasture (at least with Mulroney and Clark we didn't have to worry about the mentally ill being given the keys to power).