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[Hank Chinaski]

Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop

The Court has been political before. Before the Civil War, and as you pointed out, during FDR's earlier terms. Those times, it got better because the two parties were not polarized in the same way, so each side could live with the other side's Presidents' picks, more or less. After the Civil War, this was because the South lost, and slavery stopped being an issue. After the New Deal, it was because Republicans and Democrats had a lot of overlap in the middle, so Republican appointees like Earl Warren and David Souter were fine by Democrats. The parties have polarized around different views, so we are back to where we were before the Civil War, divided into two factions with strongly opposing views that are hard to reconcile. Hopefully there is less trench warfare this time around, but I don't really see how it ends.

Those of us who are Americans instead of dem or rep just want you both to stand down.