Ruth Bader-Ginsburg’s bad decision

This lady was a fabulous trailblazer for gender equality and deserves our utmost admiration. A lot has been written about her accomplishments, so there’s nothing that I could add to that. Her presence at the highest court on the land wll be terribly missed. 

Without being disrespectful, she was to Justice was Mick Jager is to rock and roll and that brings me to the sticky issue of staying too long and being too old in critical roles. Had Supreme Court Ruth Bader-Ginsburg decided to resign early into Obama’s second term, say in 2015, she would have been 82, plenty old for retiring and yet, would have secured a historical legacy on the US Supreme Court. 

Today, we would feel much more secure, having her replacement as a Liberal Judge. She choose not to, even though she was plenty smart to know otherwise. Still, she’d been plagued with health issues since 1999, six years after her appointment to the Supreme Court. 

First with early-stage colon cancer, then 10 years later with pancreatic cancer, later on with cancerous growths in her lung and more recently cancerous lesions on her liver. All along, she’s been struggling to stay alive. 

I think it’s more than time to admit that old is old, and that at some point, it’s time to call it a day, only to give upcoming generations a shot at leadership. This kind of reluctance to leave a top job is sickening. Pelosi, Sanders, Biden, Trump, or Warren are all old enough to elegantly exit, but their big egos won’t let them. 

The Democrats should have been smarter, more prescient as well as pragmatic, and pressurized her to leave her post while it was still time, just as the Republicans did when they presumably convinced Kennedy to retire and be replaced by a much younger Kavanaugh...

Now, and because of Bader-Ginsburg gross miscalculation and delight for her Rock Star status with movies, book and public worship, not only will many of her past accomplishments be erased, but America has a Judicial Branch of Government that will be akin of the times of the Spanish Inquisition and will last for a very long time!