When it comes to the United States Supreme Court...

When it comes to the United States Supreme Court...

When it comes to the United States Supreme Court, the number nine has no foundation in the Constitution and reflects no moral or political principle.

There’s some tradition behind the number nine, true, stretching back to 1869, which is a long time in American history, a blip in human history.

If Democrats change the number of judges on the Court, is that a partisan move? Sure.

Most changes to the number of judges on the Court have been, going back to John Adams and the Federalists in Congress reducing the number and then Thomas Jefferson and the Democratic-Republicans increasing it the next year.

Our problem is not the Supreme Court or the number of judges on it.

The problem is that since the inception of progressivism in the late 1800s, and especially since FDR’s New Deal in the 1930’s, growing numbers of Americans hear empty promises of free housing, free education, free health care, free energy, free Internet—and many other free things—coupled with empty promises of perfect safety from all dangers and unpleasantries—in exchange for their liberty and property!—and they don’t know the promises are empty.

They actually believe it’s a good deal. It’s a “new” deal. Now it’s a “green” new deal.

And they support entire academic disciplines that produce “research” proving that we citizens will be healthier, happier, and all around better if we accept the deal and turn over our liberties and property to government.

And popular media figures and other pundits—and, increasingly, business executives and CEOs, as well influential religious people—reassure Americans daily that to give up liberty and property is a sign of intelligence and moral virtue, and only morally depraved people who don’t care about the “greater good” disagree.

Progressives never pause to consider that the greatest human harm to human beings throughout history has come from...government. Even when a government agent is accused of some heinous injustice against a citizen, like murder, they instantly focus on "racism" and call for MORE government regulations, control, and power.

And, progressives usually don't pause to consider all the terrible human suffering that correlates with their own progressive policies and programs, the kind of human cruelty that emanates from idleness, dependency, irresponsibility, and a nation of people who feel entitled to things they never earned and don't deserve, all incentivized by progressivism.

That's our problem.

Turning our modern progressive culture away from empty progressive promises and deadly real progressive central planning is far more important, and urgent, today, than the number of judges who sit on the Supreme Court.

[NOTE: Our modern English word “education” comes from the Greek “educere,” which means to turn from or lead out, as in: Turn away, be led away from false idols, empty promises, untruths, illusions, and turn the soul toward the light, the sun, the truth, that which is real.]