Tag: Roe v. Wade

Devastation.

Numbness.

Fury.

Desperation.

Abject defeatism.

I’ve got nothing.

Absolutely.

Nothing.

Last night at around 7:30 pm, Ruth Bader Ginsburg died. The death of such an important figure in history would normally be met with grief, sorrow, and gratitude – and those emotions are being shown throughout the country right now.

They shouldn’t be beset by fear, tarred with toxic hatred, or drowned in core-shattering anxiety.  

And yet, in the undisputed Worst Year Ever, we the sane of this country are not so much mourning for the fallen Supreme Court justice than the inevitable end of America’s most important civil rights statutes with a swift, hypocritical self-fellating shoe-horned judicial appointment, putting at risk millions of women’s access to abortion, equal voting rights for all races, and people’s rights to affordable health insurance.

The Rubicon has been crossed.

The other shoe’s thudding crash to the ground echoes throughout the world.

We have officially reached the worst-case scenario.

Jews are told to ask for forgiveness as a way to start the new year on solid moral ground free from the millstone of our day-to-day misdeeds since we humans are imperfect beings who sin. Be they sins as small as telling the odd white lie or gossiping behind a friend’s back, we’re told to seek apologies for any harm we’ve inflicted on those around us. It’s an embodiment of one of Judaism’s core tenets: tikkun olam or “repair the world”. In other words, leave this Earth a better place than it was when you arrived. Be the change you wish to see, but with a more of a Jedi flourish.

This Rosh Hashanah, I have no intention of asking the scores of internet trolls I’ve told to fuck off and eat shit for forgiveness. I don’t wish to ask G-d for penance after spending the better part of this lost year fighting with strangers online, and openly hoping for the deaths of countless politicians and pundits whom deserve not a minute more of breath.

I’m shamelessly resolute in wishing ill-will on Republicans seeking to vandalize the Supreme Court as a final fuck you to the millions of Americans who’ve rejected them time and time again only to be rewarded with the most brazenly un-democratic electoral process exactly as it was intended – to strip the populace of true power over our elected leaders, leaving them accountable to only their messianic cult of crony capitalism and its chief operatives.

For the first time in my 28 years of life, I am prepared for battle. I’m ready to fight for every goddamn piece of this nation, its principles, its potential.

I don’t know exactly HOW I will channel this new-found courage, but I’m sure as shit not going to apologize for thinking and feeling this openly incensed.

The other side didn’t wait for RBG’s body to be lukewarm before announcing their plans to consign her and her legacy to oblivion.

And if we’re going to repair the world, then we’ll need to annihilate the corrupt political machines ruining it.

The planet burns as a virulent pestilence sweeps from nation to nation. No amount of self-reflection or contrition will hinder these immediate and destructive crises.

In this year of 5781, I choose war. Not because I want it, but because it has chosen me. It’s chosen all of us. To pretend otherwise is a dereliction of duty to your children, their children, and so on.

This is our last chance to repair the world before it’s too late.

Alav ha-shalom, Justice Ginsburg.