Friday, September 28, 2018

The Enraged Sense Of Entitlement Denied

Thinking about the preppy-jock brat-boy tantrum that Brett Kavanaugh threw yesterday, expecting it to get him onto the Supreme Court it was a full display of the sense of rich, male entitlement behind his theory or the law and his brand of billionaire boys-club funded Republicanism.

What we saw yesterday was someone who came up in the entitled, privileged world of affluence that went to the best schools and joined up with others produced by that silver spoon in mouth childhood to prep school youth to Ivy League level university to join the upper escalations of the professional world who was about to be denied a privilege for the first time in his privileged life.  It violated his sense of entitlement that goes where most of us have some sense of egalitarian rights.

The number of times he mentioned shibboleths of his privileged world, his rich, white, male jock world in which he, member of sports teams - the number times he seemed to use sports as a shield against questions asked by Democrats and, though I'll have to look at a transcript, Rachel Mitchell was very telling of how him being a jock enhanced his already swollen sense of entitlement.   It was as if that was supposed to shield him from the accusations that so many jocks have faced when their treatment of women finally catch up with them.  It was no accident that it was members of the football team at Georgetown Prep were the ones who had an inside joke in their yearbook at the expense of "Renate" there might be boys on sports teams at prep schools who don't do things like that but it's certainly no surprise when we find out jocks do that or that jocks are named as the attackers of women.

Brett Kavanaugh's world of entitlement is what fuels his position in politics and the law.  It is why Republicans, including Republican women are ready to allow him on the court where he will vote to discriminate against people on the basis of economic class, on the basis of them being Women on the basis of their race and ethnicity.  It is why he will vote on the court just as he has ruled for the entitlement of his upper class milieu, his male, upper class milieu and the billionaires who are above them in that upper caste world and who fund his and others advancement in it.

The Jesuits who run such places as Georgetown Prep have a lot to answer for, if there's one thing that it is clear, one that produces both Brett Kavanaugh and Neil Gorsuch are producing the servants of privilege not people who demonstrate the morality or commandments of The Gospel of Jesus, The Law and the Prophets, the teachings of Paul, or Ignatius.  That's a different and longer piece.  If I were in charge of such a school with the eye-opening that the Kavanaugh scandal forces, I'd immediately turn it into a school for the disadvantaged in an inner city, selling its buildings and turning its grounds into a public park.  The world of its students and their families and alumni is not an expression of Christianity and it's obvious that many of those it brags about having produced are living the lives of arrogant, entitled  Mammon worshipers such as are warned about in the Letter of James.  They should certainly get rid of the classrooms of enhanced entitlement that team sports are.  The presence of those at so many elite Catholic schools and universities is a scandal, for schools pretending to be teaching the Gospel of Jesus they are an open occasion of sin.

It was obvious from his tantrum yesterday that "beer" is one of those shibboleths, one that figures into so many of the reported attacks on women by such jocks with a feeling of entitlement.  Beer.


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