I was just listening to a discussion about how the "right" in the US is better at manipulating the supreme court and all federal courts because the "right wing" judges are all willing to step aside when the political climate allows for a like minded replacement. Liberals freak out when people ask for their justices to retire under the same circumstances. Basically RBG is the clearest example. She had cancer and survived. Her and the liberal elites then decided that as part of her legacy she should retire and be replaced by the first female president. Obama then defeats Clinton. People on the left beg RBG to retire for 8 years because she is an old woman who has already had cancer once. RBG refuses and all the political elites on "the left" chastise anyone calling for her to retire. They still believe it's Clinton's "turn" to be president even though Obama ruined it for the time being. They called us sexist and ageist for asking for RBG to retire. Then Obama's term ends, Clinton loses, Trump wins, and RBG dies. Thus the exact thing that actual people on the left had warned would happen for 8 years happens.

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This made me come to an interesting realization. The conservative justices and politicians are acting in a far more leftist ideology than the liberals in this sense. This idea of bypassing your own ego for the greater good is an extremely leftist way of thinking and acting. Meanwhile the liberals are emphasizing individual glory and legacy. This is an extremely right wing mindset. It puts hierarchal structure in place where someone like RBG or Diane Feinstein is at the top level of the pyramid and the voters just get excoriated for not complying with this power structure where those at the top of the hierarchal pyramid are supposed to be bowed down to.

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This is interesting because it completely overlaps with the way the liberals ally with the trans movement.the focus on the self is most important and fuck everything else.