Firstly, I think it's very important to completely disregard the image of Ginsberg that both sides have painted. She's not this Holier Than Thou Woman-Saint of Social Justice, and she's not a baby-eating hobgoblin. Almost everyone's opinion of Ginsberg is just an opinion that they've picked up from other people's opinions. They either see a candle with her face on it and go "omg yas queen" or see a tiny snippet of her one, dissenting opinion about abortion and go "omg satan." As always, there's a bit more nuance to that in a human being, even when they stop being a human being and become a human was.
I think that Ginsberg's death completely cements the death of their party, and that her dying wish was--now that I've stopped laughing and actually thought about it-- intentionally calculated to help destroy it. Ginsberg was a lot of things, but stupid wasn't one of them. It's very easy for people to pin her up there with all of the dipshit Communists and Socialists in the Democratic party these days, but Ginsberg not only predated the DNC turning into a collection of obese, neon-coloured Communists and their pet skeletons in Congress, she actively hated them.
Obama was a failure. Despite the fact that you see the both of them in pictures all the time and despite the fact that they met on dozens and dozens of occasions, Obama could never convince Ginsberg to retire so that he could appoint another Justice. For all of the charisma he's been accused of wielding, for all of the efforts to paint the both of them as progressive and perfectly-aligned equals, Obama couldn't get her to budge. She completely rejected his judgement and stubbornly refused to allow him to replace her. Why?
If you go back through Ginsberg's legal opinions--especially from the 1990s--you'll notice a pattern. The only time that she really strikes you as a "progressive" is when it comes to the issues of civil rights, and even then she doesn't typically walk that far out into Left field, they're just more Liberal, legal interpretations than her opinions on things like criminal justice, businesses, and freedom of speech. Moreover, you can see the logic in her opinions. She's not stamping her foot down and demanding that you listen to her or you're a racist, she's attempting to persuade you to her side, or in the very least explain how she came to that conclusion. You might find that you disagree with her anyways, but there's at least a structure to her arguments.
Compare that to Kagan or Sotomayer. Can anyone list a single opinion they've made that's been noteworthy? They're both women, they're both minorities, and they've both been on the Supreme Court for over a decade, so why does nobody care about them? Why are their political opinions never touted and why is their acumen for legal matters never lauded? The answer to that is tied directly to why Ginsberg would never let Obama take her seat on the Supreme Court.
Kagan acted as the Solicitor General for Barack Obama before he shoved her in a black dress and pushed her up to the Supreme Court, which was an awfully odd thing to do considering that as Solicitor General, she lost most of the cases that she elevated to the Court. If you try to read her individual dissents or opinions, you just wind up going glassy-eyed and losing interest, because there's no real substance to any of it. Kagan doesn't really think and she doesn't try to persuade you in the same way that Ginsberg did, much the same way that Sotomayer never bothers, and just tries to pull one heart string after another instead of giving you an actual fucking argument. People try to give Ginsberg flak for being some sort of Liberal rubber stamp in the Supreme Court, but that's just not true. Ginsberg sided with the Conservative Justices on a fairly routine basis, but Sotomayer could be replaced with a literal, rubber stamp and I think it'd be months before anyone noticed that she was missing, and even then it would only be because there's suddenly a lot of food left in the fridge and the Cloak Room isn't full of Milky Way wrappers.
Ginsberg wasn't stupid. Ginsberg saw the caliber of Justices that Obama was keen to appoint, and knew that people who are that overwhelmingly stupid are not only going to wind up destroying the Supreme Court if they're given a majority, they're going to end up destroying her legacy. I can see no other reason as to why she would have constantly fought off Obama's attempts to replace her, and I don't buy the narrative that she wanted to wait until Queen Hillary's coronation because Ginsberg wasn't nearly as progressive as people try to make her seem. Ginsberg was a lot of things, but a Social Justice lunatic wasn't one of them, and it's a mistake to try and give her that moniker.
Obama met damned near every checklist qualification for Social Justice types; he was the fucking Crown Prince of Social Justice and rapidly became one of their golden cows. If he couldn't convince her to step down from her seat, it wasn't because he "wasn't progressive enough." I think that everyone is mistaken in assuming that Ginsberg wanted Hillary to appoint her replacement, when it's much easier to assume that she just hated Obama.
Ginsberg wasn't stupid, and she wasn't some blind devotee to the Church of the Saint Who Can't Breathe. She used her own death as a political weapon, but she's not stupid. It wasn't done flippantly. There are very few people in the world who know the ins and outs of the legal processes as well as Ginsberg had, and she knew very well that there's no legal argument for her request to stand on. If there was, she would have left it behind, but the only thing that she left behind was a request that she knows is going to send the Democrats headfirst into an unwinnable fight.
There's nothing to stop it and trying to pull a "feels" to get the result that she wanted isn't something that you'll see in any of Ginsberg's dissents or much of anything in her personal life. She's painted up as "yas queen slay don't need no man!" but have you ever actually seen that coming from her, or just the people who depict her like that? It doesn't fit any of her history, it doesn't make any sense.
I think that Ginsberg knew full well that her dying wish wouldn't be respected, because she never wanted it to be respected. I think that's just the lit match that she threw into the room full of hippies and gasoline. She'd already seen the Far Left. She'd seen the economic damage, the riots, the identity politics, the slow erosion of everything that she'd been working for. She's dolled up as some kind of hyper-liberal who surrounds herself with It's Her Turn and BLM posters and her goldfish is a trans rights activist, but... That's just not who Ginsberg was. That's the Regressive Left's lunatic interpretation of Ginsberg because that's who they wanted her to be.
She'd already personally experienced what happens when these people get power: They appoint two fat retards who spend more time wolfing down cheap wine and take-out pizza than they do crafting dissenting opinions, all while insisting that even though these fat retards do nothing of value, they're your intellectual equals. They're the future of this party, and you need to retire so we can have more of them, and finish destroying your legacy so we can replace it with our own legacy of fat retards.
I think she laid down on that death bed, pulled the pin on the grenade, and went out knowing exactly what she was doing to the Far Left.
