When will we stop worrying about the superficial characteristics of our candidates for POTUS, VPOTUS, and SCOTUS?
Do you think that 44/45 presidents where white men because they happened to be the best people for the job?
No, but I am saying that we need to
grow up and stop
worrying about the fact that they were white men and we need to
focus on the important characteristics that candidates have. We need to reject old-fashioned and new-fashionable stereotypes about race and sex. If we think it was an injustice that women and black people were never seriously considered viable candidates for POTUS before 2008, we won't rectify the injustice of the past by copying it while reversing the image. And I guarantee you that the Supreme Court has never, ever been
improved by appointing the first black person (or the second one, or the third) to serve on the Court, or by appointing the first woman, or the first feminist icon, or the first Latina. The first few black people and the first few women who were appointed to the SCOTUS have been just as mediocre as the vast majority of white men who have ever served.
The most important quality we need to have on the SCOTUS is OBJECTIVITY, regardless of race, sex, religion, status as an Ivy-league grad, sexual orientation, gender identity, etc. etc. The most important quality we need in a POTUS is effective leadership skills (and I, for one, will focus on whether they will appoint the most objective interpreters of law to the Court), not .... well, you know the rest.
