Democracy is sustained by the push and pull of ideas.
Two parties, battling in the arena of ideas, a clash of wills, should be able to reach a consensus.
This is how a country as diverse as the United States has managed to peacefully govern its citizens for over two hundred years, minus that small intra-familial issue in the 1800s.
In keeping with that tradition, when one party leans toward going completely bat-sh*t f*cking insane, the other party cannot in good faith stand by idly, sinking in the guano, as it were.
President Obama was denied the hearing in the Senate for Merrick Garland, whom Mr. Obama intended to nominate for the Supreme Court.
The Trump administration then rushed to confirm two other justices, after they had secured a seat for Trump appointee Neil Gorsuch.
The Supreme Court has been expanded in the past.
If democracy survives it will be expanded again in the future.
To ensure that the Court retains its legitimacy in the eyes of its citizens, and to try to keep the wheels on democracy, Congress needs to use its authority granted by the Constitution to expand the Supreme Court right now. Yesterday, in fact.
