- cross-posted to:
- usnews@lemy.lol
- cross-posted to:
- usnews@lemy.lol
In a new, secret recording, the Supreme Court justice’s wife bemoans having to “look across the lagoon at the Pride flag”
Martha-Ann Alito, wife of Supreme CourtJustice Samuel Alito, is incensed about seeing rainbow Pride flags during Pride Month, according to a new recording obtained by Rolling Stone. If it were up to her, she would be flying a Sacred Heart of Jesus flag in response. Or she might design her own flag, one sporting the Italian word for “shame.”
In recent weeks, Martha-Ann Alito has been at the center of a national firestorm over two flags seen flying at their residences that have been associated with right-wing movements that question the legitimacy of the results of the 2020 election. Justice Alito has blamed his wife for flying those flags — and rebuffed calls from Democratic lawmakers to recuse himself from upcoming decisions in cases related to the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol.
Like her husband, Mrs. Alito is unbowed by the criticism and controversy — as she makes clear in comments recorded by liberal documentary filmmaker Lauren Windsor. Windsor, posing as a Christian conservative, spoke at length with Mrs. Alito at a dinner reception hosted by the Supreme Court Historical Society last week. Windsor attended the dinner as a dues-paying member and bought a ticket; a colleague joined her.
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When Windsor tells Mrs. Alito she is being persecuted and depicted as “a convenient stand-in for anybody who’s religious,” the justice’s wife gets quieter, and her tone turns more serious: “Look at me, look at me. I’m German. I’m from Germany. My heritage is German. You come after me, I’m gonna give it back to you. And there will be a way — it doesn’t have to be now — but there will be a way they will know. Don’t worry about it. God — you read the Bible. Psalm 27 is my psalm. Mine. Psalm 27, the Lord is my God and my rock. Of whom shall I be afraid? Nobody.”
That’s another powerful advantage we have from the information age. We aren’t just limited to our neighborhood and towns anymore, we can talk with people all over the country and worldwide. Cities are also more populous. The average person is exposed to far more diversity than before, and they know that people different from them also just want to live their lives in peace.
I think fascism has become fundamentally disadvantaged compared to the last century. The only reason we’re observing an apparent rise is because people trust the system will keep them away and we won’t need to act otherwise. But if fascists prove us wrong and break the system, there is a much larger oppositional force than they would’ve faced back in the 1920s-40s, and it is in much closer communication than before.
There’s that, and there’s also the silent majority of people who simply aren’t engaged in other spaces (like on the internet) and flat out are disgusted with trump and the rights antics.
A few buddies of mine that are veterans are very much Eisenhauer style conservatives and they absolutely hate trump. They don’t post about it, they don’t rant about it online, but they will vote against him.