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“Squishy”


On 6/17/21 at the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, San Diego bishop Robert McElroy worried about “destructive consequences” of a Catholic bishops’ document that would address the question of “Catholic” politicians and their promotion of abortion. To my way of thinking, for whatever reason, bishop (notice the purposeful absence of a capital ‘B’), bishop McElroy’s lack of fortitude in this matter is merely postponing the inevitable. Henceforth, I shall refer to him as one of the “squishy” bishops. “Squishy” because making the obvious and oftentimes right decision takes fortitude, and fortitude and “squishy” are antithetical attributes.

His squishy do-nothing strategy reminded me of a quote attributed to Edmund Burke, included by John F Kennedy in a speech in 1961: “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.” 

On that same morning I read an article from the American Thinker by John Green in which the author bemoaned the fact that the Supreme Court chose not to get involved in any of the lawsuits and Constitutional issues concerning the 2020 presidential election.

Mr. Green states, “It was a cowardly way to stay out of the political controversy. Unfortunately, it also missed an opportunity to defend the Constitution, which was clearly under attack.”

As background, for the Supreme Court to hear a case there must be four votes to proceed. This is referred to as the so-called ‘Rule of Four,’ which is further detailed in my fictional novella, “The Keneally Chronicles.” Only three of the Justices voted to take up an election fraud case. Most likely these were Justices Thomas, Alito, and Gorsuch.

As should be obvious to everybody, the liberal Justices, Kagan, Sotomayor, and Breyer undoubtedly did not vote to hear election cases. This leaves only three other justices, namely Roberts, Barrett, and Kavanaugh. Henceforth I shall refer to these three justices as the “squishy” justices (notice that there is no capital ‘J’ when referring to these three “squishy” justices). If any of the “squishy” justices had had the fortitude to proceed in the time after the election, the Country would not be in the mess that it is in today. 

Back then there should have been a chorus of “Hear the case, squishy John.” “Hear the case, squishy Amy,” and “Hear the case, squishy Brett.” “Do your job! Do what the Supreme Court is supposed to do … decide on Constitutional issues.” To my way of thinking their lack of fortitude has only put off the inevitable. At some point “do nothing” needs to become “do something,” and “squishy” needs to morph into “courageous.” 

Perhaps it would be apropos for us all to remind these three justices:

“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.” 

6/20/21

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